ewwwwwwww sams teach your self theirs better books than that lol deitel and deitel is a good book to start ive had a few friends switch from vb to c++ they havent had to much trouble but they said learning c++ has in creased their vb coding skills no end. but just read as much as you can if you get stuck pm me and ill give you a hand but learn cout and cin first and the different types of variables you can youse then functions etc etc
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