tutorials that explain things like you are a beginner tend to end at polymorphism...what would the next steps be?

[devonrevenge]

am i too far ahead of the learning curve or am not trying to understand hard enough

im not that comfortable with pointers and references and still havnt grasped the arrow member selection operator completely,i know it points to object functions but it doesnt sit well in my brain but what should i look at next? the tutorials for beginners tend to end at polymorphism...i think i should learn a bit more to mnake everything else fit to context