front matter
preface
Learning C++ is mainly about applying its language features in an environment to solve specific problems. Teaching C++ in a college environment differs from mentoring a junior developer in a work environment, yet the language is the same. Think of C++ as the common language (pun intended) that developers speak at the lowest level. Design patterns, conventional use, problem domain specifics, and company processes are higher levels of communication. These higher levels are the most critical; Alan Turing demonstrated that any single computer can compute a solvable problem that any other computer can, differing only in approach and time. Likewise, any language can solve a computational problem that C++ can solve.
This thought is not meant to criticize C++ (or any other language) in any way, only to establish that, in a business that uses C++, that fact is of almost no consequence to the overall direction of the company and the problems it solves. Your skill at becoming a seasoned developer is of much greater importance than your (simple?) knowledge of a specific programming language.