Now that you've reached the end of this book, some questions have probably occurred to you. For example:
Am I a programmer now?
What am I qualified to do?
Where do I go from here?
Is that all there is to C++?
Before we get to the answers to these questions, let's take care of some assorted topics that are likely to be covered in any other book that you might read on programming in C++, so that they aren't foreign to you when you encounter them in the future.