Well I made a bit of progress on learning this C++ stuff.
I was playing EQ2 and music annoyed me again so I logged out and downloaded this thing called CodeBlocks because it's what google recommended.
I kind of felt like I was drowning in it for a bit because of how much features it has on it. I couldn't even figure out how to run a program on it for a bit. Then come to find out it wasn't actually a compiler but rather some thing that lets you pick a compiler (I think?)
So i downloaded this compiler called MinGW because it sounded minimalistic and ran it through codeblocks. I think I got the basics of compiling / debugging on it now I just have to learn more complicated stuff.
I've been running through these tutorials here
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
Hopefully I can learn most of what I need from that. I'll see if i can finish them tomorrow or the next day.
Is there a place I can go on this forum to ask questions about how to make code? Also if anybody has suggestions for more advanced tutorials please toss me a link.