My background is like this:
-Basic BASIC skills of a level to be a nuisance, and probably just a little more than enough to endlessly loop "HA " on a display.
-An extremely brief period in a class, and with materials, in an intro level C++ class (also my first time hands on with Linux)
-Occasional looking into various languages, how they work, and looking at real-world (not academic) examples I found in the wild, which were sometimes even annotated enough for me to figure out what I was looking at
-Minor shell scripting (I still suck at this, not that I try to get better)
-Semester long Java class where we made cartoons to learn how things work, and eventually we made a few very simple programs.
That last one was a couple years ago. I wouldn't say I have anything more than a passing familiarity with any language. I might be able to identify the language if I look at it, with heavy emphasis on the might.
If I ever moved in to C++ it would only be after I am confident enough in my abilities with C that I would be willing to call myself a programmer (so probably never unless I get a lot of workplace experience), and even then I have something else I would check out and mess around with first, going lower rather than higher, so, yeah. I think I would probably also try out python before C++, and after C. Actually, I would probably make a decision at that point which direction would be best to go, and I like to make things difficult for myself.
Should we really be mucking up this thread with this kind of stuff? I know we have a new news thread, but people that are just finding out about the Pyra, or those that have been away, might not appreciate all the off-topic stuff.
Speaking of which, what's the status of the testing this thread is named after? I would really like to know, because Pandora.