wish to start learning c++

[rockager]

so i've got c++ in my computer applications course in senior school and i don't even know the 'c' of c++.

i want to run c++ on my computer and start doing some basic programs.
can someone point me in the right direction and tell me where i get the compiler,IDEs etc required to be able to do this?

p.s: i am running fedora 16 and windows 7 in a dual boot config

[raja.genupula]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=333867

[QIII]

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Should work (for Fedora) for getting everything you might possibly need behind the scenes for compiling and such. It's a pretty big group of things, but I don't know precisely what you want to do. It's analogous to installing build-essential in Ubuntu.

As far as an IDE, I use Netbeans pretty regularly.

For Windows there is Visual Studio Express. That's the best you can do without paying a lot of money. For what you are doing it would probably be fine. But for bigger projects ("Solutions" in Microsoft parlance) you are out of luck.

That said, I'd suggest a Fedora forum or a Windows forum as a more likely place to get answers to questions regarding those OSes.

(But I bet you like us more for your Ubuntu questions!)