FAA requirements are 40 hours to get your private license, but it typically takes around 60-80 hours, and the most commonly quoted approximate price I've always heard is about $10,000 for everything: ground school, flight training, materials, etc.
C++ is used today in any field that requires performance, like Gaming for instance. C++ is also very reliable and is the prime choice for embedded systems, which must be reliable to work and not cause exceptions. C++ can be used to create virtual...
Okay, let's cut to the chase--you want to learn to program in C/C++ and you want to know exactly what you should do, right now. C is a programming language originally developed for developing the Unix operating system. It is a low-level and powerful language, but it lacks many modern and useful constructs. C++ is a newer language, based on C, that adds many more modern programming language features that make it easier to program than C.