As I'm sure it's many other people's case, I started learning C++ as part of one of my university courses (8 years ago already 🤯), and to be honest, it did get quite overwhelming at times! However, it was also astonishing and encouraging to see how many things one could do with it, so I ended up enjoying the class.

I used the language throughout my degree to solve various tasks, but it wasn't until my graduate life that I started making a heavy usage of it, mostly to write data analysis programs (which most of the time make use of ROOT) and Geant4 applications for the simulation of experimental setups.

However, I started noticing how I relied too much on stuff I had learnt long ago - and maybe not as rigorously as I should have - as a result of which my code always ended up full of patches, workarounds, bad style, ... in short, I was producing unmaintenable and very difficult to reuse or extend code.

So, I made up my mind and since a few months ago I'm focusing on reinforcing the concepts I already knew, learning new ones, applying new syntax and good practices, etc. and I figured out it would be a good idea to document part of that process here! I'll be posting some short articles as part of this series explaining what I learn along the way, and hopefully inspire some people and/or spark some nice discussions!

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