Useful, and gets under the surface of 'chatter' to some of the guiding principles that are less than obvious (perhaps) to those interested. I say this having st

Useful, and gets under the surface of 'chatter' to some of the guiding principles that are less than obvious (perhaps) to those interested. I say this having started in QBASIC and getting to C++ before losing my chops, and thinking of getting back into it, but not into any rah-rah fantasy about how learning to write modern code is a ticket to fortune. It's access to different tool sets, in my view, which is interesting because tools don't make the product, the person using them does.