Given your situation, I would suggest learning C right now. C is a small language, and will be a good ramp up into C++. A lot of people around here readily reco

Given your situation, I would suggest learning C right now. C is a small language, and will be a good ramp up into C++. A lot of people around here readily recommend Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language as a book for learning C, though for a beginner, it can be a bit terse.