Since many of these introductory chapters should – in my opinion – be consolidated, I decided to take my own advice and treat them as one. Having done this, days two through five (inclusive) and probably day seven really should be one day.

These chapters cover the anatomy of a C++ program, variables and constants, expressions and statements, functions and chapter seven appears to cover advanced program flow (which I haven’t completed). Day six (which will be tomorrow for me) finally enters into C++ territory with “Basic Classes.”

The first five days are essentially a rehash / introduction to C or procedural programing (with the important exception of pointers). Not entirely useless, it turns out, even for me. The reintroduction to recursion (having a portion of a program branch back to itself) was a challenge that resulted in a very satisfactory solution. In most applications I’ve worked on, recursion was always very rare, so I am rather proud to have reacquainted myself with it again.

Only 16 more days to go!