boen, unfortunately programming with C++ requires you to start with stupid, meaningless projects, command line based, to get the basics of the language. Useing graphics and making UI is very intense in C++ (from what I have found so far), unless you give in and use MS Visual C++ to make Windows Forms.This a great beginner tutorial that I used when first learning. It is very detailed and thorough, http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/.To take a look at how monsterous graphics can be take a look at this site of OpenGL tutorials, http://nehe.gamedev.net/