Do you really need a mentor? Or just a list of good books and path to take? What is your experience with other programming languages? On the mentor charge, I

Do you really need a mentor? Or just a list of good books and path to take? What is your experience with other programming languages? On the mentor charge, I think trying to get a mentor and pay a per hour thing maybe wrong. I mean, I can charge you for an hour for a skype 'lesson' but what about all the other work a mentor/teacher would have to do (checking code you wrote, writing notes, writing assignments or doing 'lesson plans')? If you are interested, you can email me (info on profile) and we can discuss it further (for reference, I've wrote a book about C++ and having using it for more than 10 years as a developer).