My approach for reading the cpp reference materials is to start by reading each of the high level topics (ie each page that is directly linked from the main cppreference landing page. Once I have made a sweep of the high level topics, I'll go back to do more in depth reading of the lower level material.
There is a lot of material, so it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Even the basic concepts page has mentioned many things that I need to review/learn (like translation, parameter packs, and odr-used). I'll have to find the right balance of digging in and challenging myself to really know what I say I know, yet also moving on from a topic so that I don't become bored and frustrated and quit before I should.
I took a quick look at each of those unfamiliar topics I just mentioned and after reading just a little, things weren't nearly as initmidating as before. Translation is just a series of steps to go from the code we type into our text editors to a format that computers can run. Parameter packs are a group of parameters for templates. They are a somewhat newer feature of the C++ language so I don't feel so bad that I don't know them well. And odr-used is an awkward spelling/grammatical phrase describing the concept that things must have unique definitions (unlike declarations).
So this is the start of my cppreference reading journey. Let's see how it goes.
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