[Fleiby]

Hello, guys! I was wandering if you know a good course to learn the essentials in C++ or any programming language. I've been trying to find one but all I got was the "watch and learn" type. Maybe you know something better.

[DuelPit]

It depends on what you learn best with. For me personally, I like to get nerdy and go through textbooks, read and understand the material and go through the exercises. If I don't understand a topic to full extent, I'll skim parts of the chapter and search on Google for specific areas I have trouble with. For some people, they learn better watching a video tutorial and then using that knowledge. For books, I recommend Bjarne Stroustrup's book, I used this one when I first started: http://www.stroustrup.com/programming.html

Good luck dude! C++ can be a hard language to start with, but if you're really determined, you can do it.

[notluther]

Stroustrup's book is pretty good. He created the language, so there's that. If you're looking for a free alternative you can checkout learncpp.com, which is what I've been using to learn C++ in my free time the past few days.

[NoK17]

Many people ask this question, in your case however:

"I was wondering if you know any good courses to learn the essentials of C++ or >any other programming language<."

Start by answering why you want to start programming in the very first place, what is it that intrigues you?
When you say it like this, you aren't really clear on what purpose your programming should fulfill.

People usually say that you shouldn't start off with a language like C/C++ if you are inexperienced with the inner workings of a computer.
This is something I however disagree with, but understand that in order to become decent at C/C++ you will have to learn the detailed inner workings eventually, so make sure this is something that interests you.

If C++ is interesting, I would recommend that you that you read up on the very basics of C++ (hello world, basic printing of input, operators and then how to write a console calculator.)
Then download a compiler (MSVC if on windows, GCC / CLANG if on linux), get a programming task list and learn how to use google from the get go.

Program different things to learn how, don't learn to program.