The Shining Source

I'm out of ideas.  Of gone to every possible programming forum, and have been turned down by programmers left and right.  I've got all summer long until I take classes for C++ in the next school year, so I've decided to teach myself.  If anyone could tell me what is required to program in C/C++, please tell me.  Also, if someone could give me some links to resources, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Damn I knew I forget sth... you posted the same some time ago...

First thing to get is a compiler and an IDE ... I think that means Integrated development Environment tho I"m not sure... nevertheless it basically means that you have a text editor with syntax highlighting (so you have a better visual impression of your code) and you can start the compiler by clicking or keyboard shortcut.

Popular IDEs are
-Eclipse (free, tho you must install the C++ plugin yourself - http://www.eclipse.org/)
-Visual C++ (commercial MS product tho the compiler was released for free recently - nevertheless 6.0 is worth the 10 bucks you gotta pay for it .. tho it is rather old)
-Bloodshed Dev-C++ (free, based on a Linux compiler so everything you program must be portable or Linux C++ http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)

Next step will be to learn C++ I am still looking for good tutorials (can"t remember a site at the moment) but there are several sites you will love once you learned C++:
www.cplusplus.com - a site containing the c++ docu - great for research
http://nehe.gamedev.net/ - a site containing all zou need to learn OpenGL
http://www.gamedev.net/ - general game development


Last but not least a list of tutorials - tho I didn"t check them according to quality
http://cplus.about.com/library/blcplustut.htm
http://www.intap.net/~drw/cpp/
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
http://www.gnacademy.org/text/cc/Tutorial/tutorial.html
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++/
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/cppcen.html

Thanks heaps bEn.  I did post this on the "SF Creation" thread, but no one answered, so I posted it here.  Thanks for the help.  Hopefully, I can get everything ready to do some learnin' by tomorrow, since I probably have  more free time than a rotting corpse.  :lol:  RJ, get ready to start those stat calculations!!  :lol:  

Heh, fun.  Don't worry, I have my trusty calculator.  *calculator falls on floor and breaks*  *runs away*

Hey!  I know were you live!  Besides, I have another calculator.