@devestak Tor is safer for protecting your identity during your research, it changes your IP address every couple of minutes you can also use a VPN to be sure that you don't leave any trace.
If you want to start coding you can start with an easy language like Python you will learn the base and it will be easier for you to learn an harder language after, but of course if you wanna start directly with C you can...
However C++ is one of the hardest language to learn it you must have some solid knowledge in programming otherwise it's really long and really complicated (like a lot), But if you really wanna start learning a C language then I think you should begin with C then C++. It also depends on what you wanna program.
For example :
They're all the same commands but written in different languages :
In Python :
print( 'Hello, World!')
In C :
#include <stdio.h>
int main ( int argc, char ** argv )
{
printf ( “Hello, World!\n”) ;
}
In C++ :
#include <iostream.h>
main()
{
cout << "Hello World!";
return 0;
}
And all of these programs are just saying "Hello World"
So if you wanna start learning coding you can watch video and everything on some "Coding lesson site" like Open Classroom https://openclassrooms.com/
I hope this help you don't hesitate to ask more questions !