Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed core C++ syntax and non-OO language features to refresh your existing skill set. These features include basic language syntax, basic I/O with <iostream>, control structures/statements/looping, operator basics, function basics, simple user defined types, and namespaces. Most importantly, you are now ready to move to the next chapter, in which we will expand on some of these ideas with additional language necessities such as const qualified variables, understanding and using prototypes (including with default values), and function overloading.

The ideas in the next chapter begin to move us closer to our goal for OO programming, as many of these aggregate skills are used often and matter of factly as we move deeper into the language. It is important to remember that in C++, you can do anything, whether you mean to do so or not. There is great power in the language, and having a solid base for its many nuances and features is crucial. Over the next couple of chapters, the solid groundwork will be laid with an arsenal of non-OO C++ skills, so that we may realistically engage OO programming in C++ with a high level of understanding and success.