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My first advice would be that you’re just focusing on a programming language. There are plenty of topics that you can easily deal with for years.

You can still work with a second programming language later. Because of similar language components, this can even be somewhat simpler.

The At the beginning, a development environment should be set up and the search for a suitable source of learning. So you can handle theory and practice in parallel.

For One of these programs can support you well in Java development:

• Eclipse IDE
• JetBrains IDE
• NetBeans IDE

You can download it on the Oracle page or use alternative JDKs like Adoptium or Amazon Corretto. Functionally, it doesn’t make any difference for you.

For C++, you could use one of these applications:

• QtCreator
• Visual Studio (with the C++ Workload)

All five programmes are, however, only proposals. If you want to look for yourself, you’ll encounter other options.

As regards I would like to recommend books as they are more professionally examined and a good book author knows ways to pick up beginners and to guide them completely and understandably through important basic topics. Crash courses à la Java in 15 minutes, C++ in 21 days, etc. (if it is now in the form of a book or video) I cannot recommend.

Apart from this, it is worth mixing learning sources (books, web articles, video courses, etc.) occasionally. It can open up different perspectives (due to different approaches to explanations), thus contributing to understanding. In addition, not every learning source provides training tasks.

A some sources I can recommend for Java:

• Learn programming with Java by Gotlitz
• Java is also an islandfrom Ullenboom
• Schrödinger programmedJava by Ackermann
• The second book is available in the 15. Edition (to Java 8-14) also asOpen Books. The features that have been added since version 14 can be learnt later about web articles/videos. They are not so blatant that they must be explicitly included in basic studies.
• TheJetBrains Academyoffers a rather extensive tutorial for Java, which includes several exercises according to each chapter.
• TheOracle Tutorials(to Java 8)
• Core Java Tutorial by Pankai

A some useful C++ sources:

• The comprehensive manual of Modern C++by T. Will
• C++ 17:The C++ Programmerby Ulrich Breymann
• C++ Basicsby Jetty Nimoy
• Microsoft (Visual C++/C):Start with C++ and C
• Codeacademy
• LearnCpp
• educative: Learn C++ from Scratch

For the versions of C++, you should know that C++ 20 is the latest version. It is replaced in December by version 23. To find a source of learning, I would recommend choosing sources of >= C++ 17.

The Learning makes it sense to try out the learned in practice in parallel / directly after a theme chapter. Don’t worry about it. In order to be sure to use the basics for variables/data types, operators, arrays and control structures alone, more than a few days is usually required.

Keep your work environment / your projects that you will consider for exercise, as far as easy. Console projects are, for example, sufficient, while projects with GUI require more knowledge (e.g. to OOP).

You can find simple exercises on the CodingBat, Edabit, Exercism and w3resource websites.

If the development on the console cannot motivate you at all, look instead. This programming language has been developed to enable starters to easily start up, in which they can live creatively. C++ pens would be libxd or openFrameworks.