Where Should I Start

[tophat]

I am really fascinated by C++, and really want to learn it completely. I already have a lot of experience with PHP, AS, Ajax (if you consider that a language) and a few others. I tried going to http://winprog.org but that tutorial was a bit fast for me. i also have 2 books, but they just teach they very basics, and all of the programs are console styled. Does anyone know of a very structured, solid place that will teach windows c++ programming? Thanks in advance

[JamesSchumacher]

There isn't much to understand about Windows C++ programming. The only thing to really understand, is that it is event driven. That means you handle window messages, which get passed to a 'callback' (that is a function pointer) that you provide to the OS when you register your window class.

So if you can understand that the code that handles painting, closing, moving, etc... is all handled when the message is passed to your callback by the operating system, and not in 'top down from beginning of program code', then you should be able to pick up any windows tutorial quickly.

The console applications books/tutorials teach you the basics of C/C++.