[MeTh0Dz]

Personally I would not want to go any flavor of BASIC to C/C++, and I know this through personal experience. Once you know C/C++ however, it becomes much easier to pick up on other languages as opposed to doing this in reverse in which case you have to get used to dealing with lower level concepts such as memory management. A second point is why take the time to learn VB and C# before learning C/C++. I could kind of see learning maybe one before you learned C/C++, but learning both is a waste of time especially if your ultimate goal is to do C/C++. Why limit yourself my learning VB or C#? Especially when it is still going to take time to learn BOTH of these languages before you ever even get into C/C++. Seems like a very roundabout and inefficient course of action to me.