yes in my opinion , take the time to find a source on the internet to study up a bit on OOP and as in the wise words of mortal combat "choose your destiny!!"

edit: I cannot say how good or what not this article is ,but here's a link for you ,there may be better out there or worse ,I haven't read it so :

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22769/Introduction-to-Object-Oriented-Programming-Concep

OOP is the missing link from your lite-c experience ,towards almost any other languages you want to take on , you may already have a good grasp on it so I believe you wil catch on quickly with a basic OOP understanding .