C Programming advice Thread

You use Dev-C++ voluntarily?
I'd say forget about Dev-C++ and get a proper IDE. Go with Eclipse or Netbeans since they're available for Linux, OSX and Windows. Eclipse is powerful but the UI is complex and not intuitive at times. If you want something more intuitive, use Netbeans. I don't know how the setup-processes under Windows and OSX are though. I use Linux for developing, because it just provides the best environment for developing software. Under Windows I use Visual Studio, because as a computer-science student I have access to VS Professional.

As for the coding itself.
If you're learning it yourself, make sure that you have some reliable source of knowledge. The difference between a programmer and a "programmer" is that one of them writes code that not only works, but also is optimized. There are many ways to do the same thing, but not every way is a good way.

Have you any prior experience in programming? Do you learn OOP?

You won't get around OOP, because it's THE way of programming nowadays. The more complex your program is, the easier OPP makes programming, because it brings structure inside.
That being said, I do not recommend trying to learn the ideas of OOP with C++. That language is hard enough to learn by itself already and breaks even experienced programmers necks quite often.
I think that you shouldn't learn OOP with a language that puts rocks in your way at every turn.
Java and C# are my recommendations for learning OOP. Just choose one. They are both much easier to learn than C++ so they won't stand in your way when learning OOP. After that you can apply the principles to C++.
The point is that you have to rethink your idea of how a program is made entirely when working with OPP. The structure is just completely different.

It's a good start in my opinion. It's simplified so it doesn't blow your mind (Part two: "Variables are designed to hold a value." <- Not necessarily). It's 7 videos, which should do fine in the beginning, since he explains everything quite nice.

Since C# is from Microsoft, you'd usually go with Visual Studio. However the free "Express edition" doesn't have the features SharpDevelop has.
I'd recommend you to get MonoDevelop though, since it is cross platform and you can have the same IDE under Windows and OSX. They're both free.

use the right tool for the job i guess

c++ is like c, just a lot easier, c++0x
and ignore memory management, learn threading and syncrinisation, and serialisation, who cares about memory. just learn early how to make what you program thread safe, and you good

strust d {
d *next;
d *prev;
d(po &parent){po.next = (*this); this->prev = &d; next = NULL; return}
}

im a bit rusty this is basik linked list?

make defualt creation throw an error, and its the basic linked list

i stopped programming a long time ago

thwn you go 4d linked lists, you start to go a bit funny

struck d{
d *prev;
d *next;
...

class mind{
d *

can go into recurtion forever
without doing anything