What to read at this stage of learning to program?

Question

C++ / C#

Good afternoon.
I started learning C++ from a not too complicated book. It contains more theory, analysis of ready-made programs than practical tasks. Read more than half. Now I feel information hunger, because I studied too much theory and practically did nothing in practice (except for rare tasks in the book).
What to do:
a) be patient, read the book to the end? (if so, then I want to take up a book on algorithms later)
b) give up boring theory and ... (read a book on algorithms or your version in the comment)
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try to start writing something "for yourself". Literally - you feel a lack of some kind of software - try to write it. The only thing is that here you may encounter problems in the implementation of the interface part. Ideally, if your "for yourself" will be console and more "algorithmic" than "user-friendly". At least the hunger will subside :-)

Answer 2

Before taking on any PL, you need to understand how to program, how it works from the inside and, of course, algorithms. For this, C without pluses is better suited.
Write code only to fix some points, no need to rush to shit-code your bikes, there are millions of such programmers who mastered only half of the book now around the world. All of them say that they know the C ++ name with several years of experience, but they cannot write a function for finding the maximum number of 3 of them.

Answer 3

Read this:
Code Analysis Using Open Projects ...
Scott Meyers - Using C++ Effectively. 55 in...
Scott Meyers - Effective use of C++. 35 n ...
Can be found in the original. Books may not be new, but IMHO very useful