c++, learn it

Hello,I would like to start with C++..I know almost nothing about C ..post any links or book suggestions for C++ (for total newbies)

Thx.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but regardless of how shitty a language is, how to program is what you need to learn mostly, not the language so much?

I'm in the process of learning how to make Ruby my bitch. It's as easy as fuck, but everything I can do here has an equivilent in C and C++, they're just a fuckload more complicated to do it in. An easier gradient, so to speak.

I'll get to the bad boys eventually, but I'm not going to climb everest before I climb the hill in my backyard.