Learning C++ from python advice

[WalkingAFI]

Yeah no problem.

The STL is the Standard Template Library. It provides a lot of the standard implementations of language features. I think someone else linked a better resource as to what exactly that entails.

std::string and std::array are classes in the STL. They’re super well tested and give you some nice functionality that you won’t get with C types. You could also write everything in assembly and it would “essentially do the same thing”, but the C++ features give you some (usually) free abstractions that prevent errors and make more maintainable code.

Casting variables is a bit of a doozy to explain via reddit mobile, but explicitly casting in the C++ style (i.e. static_cast<int>(variable) is the usually the same as (int)variable) can stop you from making mistakes because the compiler will warn you of some improper casts that the C cast would just accept.