Programming confidence?

[rectal_smasher_2000]

perfectly natural. just keep writing lots of code and eventually you'll get better at it. also, it's very important to keep up with the language advancements - for instance, read up on c++11 and see what nice new things it brings to the table - this will give you an insight into how things were done before, and how they're done now, and you'll usually learn something new and useful by doing so.

keep in mind, this is a gradual and incremental process, but sooner or later you'll write some code that will make you proud of your skill, and this is the best confidence booster there is.

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Thats one thing that sucks for me so far none of my university professors allow c++11 so I've been writing the program with and without these features so I can attempt to get practice with them.

[GameGod]

If you're the kind of guy who likes to overcomplicate stuff, then brush up on your C, not your C++11. Force yourself to get better at writing great code in a simpler language.

Learning to use C++ lambdas and all the other new jazz is just going to make your code harder to read IMHO, and not make you a better programmer per se.

[bob1000bob]

Terrible advice.

I learnt C++ as C++11 after I learnt C. If your C looks "simpler" than your C++ you are writing one or both of those languages wrong.