I've decided to learn programming

It's a good thing that you want to lean programming by yourself...I had a quick look at your links and the hex tutorials are good (I have the same video on my youTube channel).

As for programming, I study it right now but haven't learned C++ yet. I heard it's not the easiest language to start with but it might depends from person to person and how quickly you can learn. I personally started with C# in school since you can do drag-and-drop for your GUI components. But so far my favourite language is Java. Anyway you might want take a look at the books from that collection: Oreilley's Head First

I have the Java and C# books from that collection and everything is well explained, even for beginners. I also think JavaScript is a good language to start with. But if you can code in C++, well you should be able to code in other languages after that with a bit of adaptation.

You can find some good C++ video tutorials there:http://www.3dbuzz.com

I hope it helps.