CrashMan on 11 July 2008
I know I am jumping in this kind of late, but I would NOT learn java or C# before C++.
You will learn bad C++ habits by starting with either one of them. When you switch to C++ you will leave memory leaks everywhere. Start with C/C++. I would skip a C book as a beginner C++ book will cover most of what you will learn in a C one, then get in to OOP.
Managed Languages (C#, Java, J#, etc) are very good for web apps and low performance requirement windows apps. C# is what I use for the majority of my projects at work (I am a Software engineer,)
But...
The game engine I am writing is all in C++.
FYI the order I learned in was:
BASIC
QBASIC
C/ASM
Pascal
C++
Java
C#
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