I’m a self taught programmer, the reasons for this choice I’m not going to share here and I don’t think they matter that much, and even though the Internet is full of great resources if you are just starting out programming or C++ in general it’s going to be a bit tough when it comes to choosing from them. I’ve started my programming journey with C not because I really wanted but because my highschool taught the C programming language and also the forums that I was often reading featured a lot of C stuff, like tools, questions, algorithms they were all written in C.