What kind of instruction and software are needed to learn and do useful
programming using C+, C++ ?
There is nothing like C+.
A good tutorial:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
I would like to access and use the windows graphics environment.
Free: DevC++ (core c++, that black command line window) + WxWidgets
(for graphical user interfaces)
Commercial: Microsoft Visual Studio version 6.0 or higher (not
available from microsoft, try ebay). Considering that you are a
beginner, Version 6.0 (alongwith latest service pack, freely
downloadable from microsoft website) is ok though advanced users prefer
Visual Studio 2005.
Hope that helps!
Divya Rathore
(remove all underscores for email ID)
http://www.adislindia.com