Don't get the Dummy book, get the Deleitle and Deleitle book or the C++ primer, or the C++ Primer Plus book, or pretty much any book by Jasma, But Don't get the Dummy book... I got that book about 10 years ago when I was 11, after I had been messing with basic and pascal, and that one book acually turned me off on C++ It wasnt till about 4 years after I got that book that I got another book and started back up on Larning C++.... So one More time Don't get the Dummy book