This week Microsoft announced that it's working on making C++ better suited for massive parallelism. This follows Google's recent benchmarks that showed that C++ is still faster than most programming languages (at least if you know how to optimize it correctly). Also, Google has been working on incorporating C and C++ support into Chrome. In other words, C++ is a strong and important language, and will continue to be even in a browser dominated landscape. Here are a few resources for leaning C++, and its predecessor C.