Help me out, /prog/

Okay, so lately, I've been thinking about learning C++. Since, compared to several other languages I've looked at (Java, C#, others), it looks the simplest. Anyone have any good suggestions as to where I could learn more about it?

Also, trying to learn more about computer systems and etc., because I think it'd be easier to understand that way.

thanks a lot, to anyone/everyone who takes the thread seriously.

P.S. - Please don't spam "LEARN HASKELL" :(

as far as simplicity goes, visual basic works...

with only a fundamental grasp of the concepts of programming, you can just type in what you want, and it does it...

as far as what you can do with it? fuck, i dunno... i left it alone freshman year of highschool...

the .vbs scripts are fun to write up quick and autostart on a friends machine... every time he logs in, he gets a dialog saying welcome to skynet, or some shit...
other than that, i'm pretty sure it's useless...