The hardest part so far has been deciding what IDE and compiler to use. After some digging I choose wxDev-Cpp ( http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/ ). It includes wxWidgets ( http://wxwidgets.org/ ).
I have read a few books on C++ and they all teach the basics of C++ with no GUI. The GUI stuff was not hard to learn using the wxWidgets examples and tutorials. But now I need something that will teach me how to do projects in C++.
Some things I have done so far:
Connected to Skype's API.
Used ODBC to connect to the iseries.
