First devlog, lots of progress

I learned about stardance midway through this, so this is really long.
Basically, I have never touched Linux, C, or C++ before this, and I am going to learn the language while using Linux (wsl2), and make a hopefully good game by the end of it

Everything I’ve made so far, in chronological order, and what i learned:

Calculator

• strings aren’t real??
• how to receive arguments
• & (address of) operator
• string formatting
• long vs long long

Rock Paper Scissors

• how to use enums
• how pointers work
• * (pointer dereference) operator
• printf
• random number generation

String Library

• void pointers
• string operations
• loop through a string
• creating a header file

Vector (c++ std::vector/dynamic array)

• bools also aren’t real????
• memory allocation/reallocation and freeing
• more pointer practice, starting to get it
• what size_t is

Linked List

• structs
• more complex memory allocation and freeing
• how to make a ton of memory leaks
• more pointer practice, I think I understand itnow

HashMap

• output pointers (void double pointers??)
• hash function
• more complex logic
• moving every value safely when resizing the hashmap