Originally Posted by diroga

What do you mean by "program to prace in"? Are you talkin about an Intigrated Development Enviroment or a text editor? For an IDE I would recomend Eclipse with the C++ plugin. Eclipse has more features than Dev C++.

As for doing C++ then Java, you could skip C++ and just start reading about Java. They are the same for procedural elemets, however, the data type are different. They are also similar in OOP but java takes differnt aproches.