Originally posted by rip1968
My goals are to learn networking, gui, and database integration later on I want to apply probability, statistics and calculus (prbly for games) it seems like a long term goal and I am wondering how long it will be?
You can do alot with calc and stats with just console programs. I got a rush when I finished a program that calculated a Riemann's Sum. Try it out. Do integrals and find out derivatives and just go to town with it. I guarantee you that you will be impressed with yourself (not too mention impress the ladies actually the ladies don't care but oh well ).

I think after console programming the next logical step is to Win32 API. Don't get swayed to the dark side of MFC but after you learn most of Win32 API I think your possibilities are endless.

Good luck, all