Howdy!

Welcome to the site, and now a few questions for you...

1) Do you want to get into commercial game programming (i.e., work for some dev house?) -- if so, then you probably want to get some good C++ experience -- tutorials are -all- over the internet -- just type 'c++ tutorial' into google (that's one of the first things you need to get good at -- how to find things for yourself :))

If that's not the case (you just want to make games for fun) why not try learning C# -- it is a bit of a cleaner, easier to use language than C++ and it is still very powerful.

2) If you do decide on learning C++, bear in mind that there is a standard and different IDEs and compilers will implement it differently -- also, code compiled and created on one machine will usually not function on other platforms -- this can be an issue for some people. If you want to do Windows Dev (like D3D and that sort of thing...), Microsoft is letting people download Visual C++ express edition (a very powerful C++ system) for free right now (and into the foreseeable future) it has heaps of support, thousands of people use it (many around here as well), and a great debugger -- this is not laying any bad mojo on Dev-C++, just that if you want to do commercial coding...many companies use Microsoft systems and it's advantageous to get used to their systems.


Otherwise, welcome again and if you have any more questions, let us know!

~Shiny.