[wannabecprogrammer]

APOLOGIZE FOR BEING ON THIS SITE FOR MY QUERY. UNABLE TO GET SUITABLE ANSWER LOCALLY. MY 13 YOA GRANDSON INTERESTED IN GAMING SPECIFICALLY IN DESIGNING/PROGRAMMING. HAS A PC AT HIS RESIDENCE RUNNING WINDOWS XP. LOOKING FOR A TUTORIAL FOR STARTUP PROGRAMMING APPROPIATE FOR AGE/LACK OF SKILL/PC AS HOST. WE APPRECIATE ANY INPUT. HIS RESIDENCE IS MARIETTA, GA. VISITING US IN HURRICANE COUNTRY, PENSACOLA, FL. I CANNOT HELP HIM MUCH, LIM ITED TO BASIC/COBOL LANGUAGES. THANXS MUCH JAO

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tutorials

[ratmilk]

If you could spare some money get: Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours.
Thats the way i learnt, you can also find some on google, C++. But if he also wants to do gaming, look into openGL:
http://nehe.gamedev.net/ (it is highly recommended to learn C++ totaly first).

A good free C++ compiler is dev C++ http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html (a gui for the MinGW compiler).

However, if he finds C++ to difficult. He should learn Visual Basic.
Visual basic is NOT free (Micro$oft created it), You would have to purchase Visaul Basic from micro$oft (VB 6.0 is recommended). You can find some tutorials on google.

-Zac