I wanted to try programming since it seemed like a good skillset to have. Many people recommended Python 3 to me, as it's easy to understand, especially for a beginner. They were right. With an intro to python book and little playing around, I made a program that estimated Pi using an infinite series.

After that, I wanted to try c++ since it's apparently much faster and it seemed like a good experience to mess around with a lower level language. I've spent over an hour just trying to get the fucking compiler and IDE to install and I can't even build my "hello world" attempt to work because it encounters an error building.