I did once read through a bit of c++ for dummies. Also I once got sent on a dole course about programming that covered a bit of it, but I was thrown out after a couple of weeks for running a linux liveCD (I always used it to do the exercises, had to look up some syntax differences) and telnetted to the mail server's port 25 in the building and sent a spoofed email to the teacher in my class from
someguy@somewhere.com saying "This is a spoofed email!".
I didn't think they'd get so pissed off, the network guy came in and was like "WE HAVE THE IP!" and came over to my machine and it was "HE'S USING LINUX! HAXOR!".
I really didn't think they'd have given a fuck, if I really thought they would I would've used an RPC exploit (they were all XP) to do it from another machine. Oh well, youthful indescretion.