-Ever-, I took a year of C++ in highschool. He taught us all the basics and then introduced us to making a game using the
CDX engine. By the end of the year I was able to make a nice arcade shooting game. I didn't get around to adding sound or animations but I could have. BTW the address to the game is my homepage in profile. I would love to work on it but the source code was lost in a format. I don't have the patience to do that all over again.
Also, I absolutly love programming. Everytime I solve a problem it feels great. Hope you enjoy it.
As a side note, everyone says that you need to learn C before you learn C++. I don't even know what the difference is because as far as I know I've never used it.