[Aizen]

Instead of immediately constructing a tutorial, I figure, posting a few great resourceful sites may be helpful, since the people who made these resources available, are most likely more experienced than me. My main suggestion for any new programmers, is to:

1) Always include the sources of the person's source code you used, otherwise, it's considered plagiarism, which is serious.
2) Don't steal other people's code. I've seen one student in my last semester CS course, who copied code off of another student, and the professor caught it.
3) Reading and practicing does you good; don't rush to become an expert programmer, that takes time. There's no such thing as mastering a programming language in one day (I don't care what anyone claims).

Applications:

Codeblocks (I personally love using this when on Windows): http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/binaries
g++ (I personally love using this when on Linux): "sudo apt-get install g++" via Terminal
Kate (Best text editor in my opinion for Linux): "sudo apt-get install kate" via Terminal

Resources for beginning programmers:

Wide variety of topics on C++/API/etc: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
A pretty decent resource: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
This man's videos are brilliant if you want to understand C++, Java, and other development languages: http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston?feature=watch
For intermediate C/C++ programmers(pretty useful): http://oopweb.com/Algorithms/Documents/P...rames.html

[Sunlight]

Nice resources mate. thanks for releasing.