hey, C++ isn't THAT far removed from Pascal, I'll pick up the Visual one, get a nice book, and I'll be writing Windows apps in no time.
Mmmm hmmm.
After about three days two realities came to mind:
1) \"C++\" and \"Visual C++\" are two distinctly different programming techniques.
2) This is NOT the way to learn C++.
Heavy intoxication might be the way.
So I'm fumbling. This is the first time I've programmed in a Windows environment, and it's nothing like I've ever used before. Mind you, it's a really neat programming environment, but it assumes you know C++ going in. This evening I spent much of the night building the wager boxes for Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy (easy, but involved to do it right), and hit the wall trying to figure out how to get whatever they type into that box back to the main form and converted into an integer so I can use it. Oh. THEN I have to figure out how to reprimand the user if they wager more or less than is legal.
I don't know why you're bothering with Visual C++ or anything ++. The boys at CBS Electronics do some very nice work in Visual BASIC, or you could try a language called Euphoria. Someone once said C++ belongs in the garbage can, and poor garbage can. C is the language that fights you. That's why I unashamedly endorse BASIC.
How's that for topic drift?