I've learned visual basic on a very beginner-type level. Is this going to help in my endeavor to learn java and c++?
If you have learned algorithms in any language, it should help you learn more computer programming languages. The extent of your object oriented programming is what will be a help. If you understand how a variable can be an object and have behaviors as well as data, then you can better reuse your code. The Head First Books from O'Reilly are a great help to learn these languages.
you might learn c in basis (Kernighan B., Ritchie D. "The C Programming") is not very popular but useful book. The C is "father" of c++ and java, so i advice you to start from it :) Also for c++ or java you need to discover OOP paradigm. And only after this 2 steps you'll get in easily.
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