today i went through pointers and references (again) and continued into storage allocation methods, and quickly through operators. The majority of the information (other than pointers and references) can be related to my experience with matlab thus far, with modification of course. Thus far, I've been retyping/editing the provided examples and trying some of my own creation, so as to get a feel for the structure of the language. The last few days have been a little less productive for me, as I was looking for a place and getting some administrative stuff out of the way but with these things out of the way, ill have much more time to focus on the program.