A month of C++

Now, I have been learning C++ for a month. As originally planned, I have made through half of the text book, completing many of the exercises. My general impression is: Java is a very good simplification of C++. In that language, they got rid of many unnecessary burdens that C++ must carry as a succeeder of C. They say Java is much slower. Well, maybe it is. But I haven't much of it jet. After all, I am only through half of the text book.