What got you started on C++?

[I_Learning_I]

Started learning 3 years ago, before school starts because I wanted to code (I was going to learn C in school, so was getting ahead already), and besides ASM, C/C++ it's the most optimised language, besides it's cross-platform, from there I just studied it for all purposes, security tools, utilities, game hacks, malware, anything basically.

[abelnic]

At first i wanted to learn python, but then i found out that at school there was a class on "intro to C++" and i really wanted to learn programmin though CS isnt my major. so i took it  , then after I switched my PC OS from Vista to Linux, and seeing all the source codes, kernel etc etc etc and everything written in C i thought "this is like the base" So now i'm taking another class "data structures and algorithms in C++" and its going fine so far. 

[Huntondoom]

I learned C because of Garrys mod (or Expression chip 2)

[Azura]

I started learning c/c++ because it was a requirement for a 1 year course I did last year in programming. Doing a diploma in games development atm.
 
I had been programming for years previous to the course but never really got too deep into it until then.