Try the C++ primer plus ---by Stephen Prata.
It's ideal for beginners.
It's not me who says it. Look at the reviews in amazon.com on this book. It's really quite a hit.

well im not sure how to help your problem but for recommending a book. i always recommend O'Reilly books, they seem to have some of the best books out there for programming and computers in general O'Reilly's Website and then here is the link to there c/c++ section http://cprog.oreilly.com/
good luck on getting your problem fixed im sure someone here will beable to help out shortly

Thank you guys!!

Here is an example of Tic-Tac-Toe.

But here u play against the computer.
See if it is of any help. It's an exapmle taken from herbert Schield's book on turbo C/C++--the complete reference.
Take care...

is that example in C or C++?

what is "scanf"?

the example is for C. But it will work for C++ as well.
Consider scanf() as equivalent of cin. scanf is used in C. C doesnt support cin. So u have to depend on scanf(). But not to worry; bcoz c++ can handle scanf() as well.

Thank you,
if you were using cin, how would you write

int x,y;
printf("Enter coordinates for your X: ");
scanf("%d%d",&x,&y);

I think
printf is cout right?
so this will look in C++ like:

int x,y;
cout<<"Enter coordinates for your X: "<<endl;
cin>> ?? (This part i don't know, what are the % for?, &x and &y are pointers right?)

i don't know C.

Hello,

I do not claim to be an expert on C++.

scanf(%d%d,&x,&y) means it is looking for decimal integer. So, %d%d means "here come 2 decimal integers, and they are called variables x and y" The & symbol is the address operator of the variable. C is more cryptic than C++, but I think you will like it better than FORTRAN.

I think you can write the code:

// Let's declare and initialize the values
int x = 0, y = 0;

// User interaction to gather X and Y
// Put me in a loop though for error checking
cout << "Enter coordinates for your X: ";
cin >> x >> y;


If I were you, I would put these in loops to ensure error checking... what happens if someone tried to enter in -3, 7? Your code would probably fail.

Enjoy.

Christian