No, I _tried_ and failed. I've never made it anywhere close to writing my own C or C++ code, and failed at the tutorial stage or earlier.

But you wrote a malloc, free, new or delete before. it's not like you were oblivious to these concepts, that's exactly my point.

Yes, but I didn't understand the implications or background. If the prerequisite for having enough basic knowledge is "making it halfway through a C tutorial" it doesn't seem as much of a hindrance as your top comment suggested.