Free Online C++ Courses

Visual C++ Guides and Software (Free)

• This site has the benefit of walking you through http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2010-Visual-CPP installing the compiler (Integrated Design Environment or IDE)
• The beginners guide I think hits too hard at first, losing beginners in polymorphism, abstraction, etc. - you may want to go to the guided tour first at  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms235630(VS.100).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/ee340952.aspx

Online, high level course

• iTunes U - Standford Universion - Programming Paradigms CS107 by Jerry Cain

Good, free online materials for learning C++

• CProgramming.com has a nice site that includes quizes
  • http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html#c++tutorial
• CPlusPlus.com has a nice walk through as well, sans quizes: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ also available as a book / pdf (http://www.cplusplus.com/files/tutorial.pdf)
  • Don't forget the source code at http://www.cplusplus.com/files/tutsrc.zip
• A simpler approach on an open source bent at http://www.intap.net/~drw/cpp/index.htm  - this course is a few years old and keeps it simple with gcc on linux.

Execellent Resources for STL

• http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/
• http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/