Best way to learn to read C++ code in a couple of weeks?

Learning to read your nth programming language is, luckily for you, a much simpler task than learning to write your first programming language. Especially when they're both in the same general family. (And the C family is even part of an even bigger family, the ALGOL family.) Unluckily for you, your second language is also where you need to start learning that some of the things you thought were general to programming were actually just quirks of your first language. C++ is also quite complex, with both [difficult syntax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse) and [semantics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkgszkPnV8g). So depending on the level of proficiency they require, your task could range * from trivial: if they actually just want to filter out people who can't read code at all, then you can already read code, so you should be able to just wing it * to easy: you should be able to pick up the basics of reading C++ in much shorter time, * to moderate: if they're expecting some actual experience with C++ * to very hard: if they're on the level of [C quizzes](https://stefansf.de/c-quiz/), or [this quiz on integers in C](https://acepace.net/integerQuiz/). > I started their course and I'm at chapter 0.11. So far there has been a lot of reading, but pretty much nothing about coding. Did you look at the table of contents on that page? The `0.` segments are an introduction, the C++ basics start with the `1.` chapters.