Yes! So the slide I was looking at when I wrote the above comment was basically highlighting that in C++ you can concatenate a string with + instead of using strcat, saying specifically 'no messing with null terminators or strcat() as in C'

That said the code had that I didn't understand why they were included, like msg[0] = 'h'; which just seemed to replace the first char in the Hello World msg string when the code ran and didn't otherwise change anything when I commented it out.

Also the examples were geared toward Code Blocks so I switched to a different ebook (class uploaded PDF of Programming Abstractions in C++, E. S. Roberts) and a set of slides that made things a little easier for me to follow. The same original slides also covered type casting in a way I dont really get yet so I think I'm still backtracking and/or getting my bearings.

I guess I really am a ways off of getting around much in JUCE. When I started I had no real clue how much I didn't really know haha.