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I know it sounds retro, but learn qbasic. Knowing how that works will get you ready to start a higher level language. A popular learning sequence from non programmer to object oriented coding is...

Agreed. Oh and I stand corrected on the inherited class comment.

Private member variables are used for data that should only be accessed by member functions and not from outside code e.g. int main() code or other classes(unless said class is inherited). Basically...