Every semester Aidan Delaney teaches over 600 students the basics of C++ at the University of the South Pacific. Textbooks often cost FJD$100 each so the total cost to students is FJD$60,000 — this is the price of a good house in Fiji! Other text book are written with students from the USA, Ireland or China in mind. They tend to start in the wrong place for students with a South Pacific school bakground and contain examples that students here find difficult to grasp.

This book is written taking into account students from backgrounds as diverse as Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga and 7 other South Pacific countries. Students in Kiribati should find this book as approachable as students in the Cook Islands. They all have ownership of this book as it is an open-source text book.