At last, in chapter six, we touch on an aspect of what makes C++ , C++.

Day six introduces the concept of an object. This is, finally, over the wall from C to C++. Of course, day seven veers back into C with a more advanced treatment of program flow (for the first time looping – possibly the most important aspect of programming – is introduced).

I think I’ve discovered pattern. Since C++ is a superset of C, the book intersperses one with the other. This approach does not invalidate the fundamental premise of the book though it does sort of have a stop and go effect on my interest in the topics covered. (I’m pretty decently experienced in C, so the bits about pointers and streams and references I’ve already covered).

Day eight covers pointers, which I think are very cool (and indeed, in constrained environments, are the only way programming can take place at all).

So, going into week two, I do expect my pace to slow but only marginally since there are a lot of topics that I’ve already experience with.