http://www.cprogramming.com/beginner_programming_mistakes.html
When you’re just starting out with programming, it’s easy to run into problems that make you wonder how anyone has ever managed to write a computer program. But the fact is, just about everyone else who’s learned to code has had that experience and wondered the same thing, when they were starting out. I’ve helped teach several introductory programming classes, and there are some problems that trip up nearly every student–everything from getting started to dealing with program design.
I’ll prepare you to get past these challenges–none of them are insurmountable.
Getting set up
Learning to program is hard enough, but it’s easy to get tripped up before you even begin. First you need to chose a programming language (I recommend C++), then You need a compiler and a programming tutorial that covers the language you chose and that works with the compiler that you set up. This is all very complicated, and all before you even start to get to the fun parts.
If you’re still struggling with getting the initial setup, then check out our page on setting up a compiler and development environment (Code::Blocks and MINGW) which walks you through setting up a compiler with a lot of screenshots, and gets you up to the point of having an actual running program.
links C++
http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
