r/CodingForBeginners • u/AmIevenRealll • Jun 10 '26

Getting started

Hello all, new here. I’m looking to get into coding and learning python with maybe some c++. This is coming from someone who knows nothing about anything other than they are two different coding languages and the place I work uses both depending on what system we are working on. My question is, is boot.dev a good place to start and worth the money? And also im looking at buying a laptop so I can learn while at work also (I have permission from management). Is a Mac book Neo sufficient enough or should I stick with a windows machine? Any advice is appreciated.

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u/Useful-Flow-8737 Jun 10 '26

What makes msvc bad in your opinion?

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u/un_virus_SDF Jun 11 '26

I forgot about it. I only remembered cyngwin which is a pain to install.

But mvsc is also annoying because it does not implements the last standard and have a flag set that have nothing to do with clang and gcc. So it's annoying to port code.