I am starting my career as a programmer and I know very very basic C++ but before i go any farther, I was wondering what kind of.....idk....... 2d/3d audio/visual/networking thing I should use!!! As you can see I know nothing about this topic at all (especially since I dont have any idea what it is called:D) and I have been scrounging around the web for any type of material that could help sway me to a certain one but came up empty handed and starving for info!!!! Could somebody please help me?!?!? So far all I have come up with is 'SFML' and it looks sounds good but I cant tell if thats the one I should use..... Just to give you an idea on what Im looking for, I want to be able to implement:

Object-oriented features
2d/3d features
Very basic: visuals/audio/(perhaps even some multiplayer capabilities although I wont need them)/GUI implementation
Ability to make an instance of an object(be able to make a box or something and have it displayed over a hundred times, with all the same characteristics but with out making a sprite for everysingle one)(example: 2d/3d minecraft clone capabilities)
Usably by an indie developer
Not to hard to set up

Any help on this matter would be so beneficial for me you wouldnt believe it!!!! I hope that with all this info given, somebody can help enlighten me with one that hits more than half of the criteria if not all of it.

Please help, thanks,
Saint Squireen

Sounds like you are after a game engine perhaps? Seeing as you dont have much in the way of programming experience, I'd suggest Game Maker - see yoyogames.com.

Well, see, the thing is that, at this very second (Dont take me too literally haha), is basically draw something on the screen. Maybe at a later time like next week or next month or next year I will get to all of the stuff that makes a game, a game but right now I want to focus on learning straight up C++ and very, very, very basic Gui/ drawing/coloring stuff.

[Dragonsoulj] I did do a little more research on SFML and it does look like a very nice and helpful (library?). The problem is that it also seems very hard and not helpful to set up properly.

Ok. Totally understandable. Dont worry about that, its not that harsh hahaha Everywhere Ive looked has told me (and the actual people it was addressed to) start with a tic-tac-toe game, or a 'Guess my Number' game where sometimes the player has to try to guess the randomly generated number and sometimes the computer will have to try to guess the players picked number. All of these seem within my capabilities right now so I think thats what I should stick to for the time being. Does that seem right to you?