Howdy yet again oh trustworthy community!
I have set up my system to dual-boot with Windows Vista and Ubuntu, mainly for the purposes of learning C++ (Ubuntu is extremely cool, too :D)
However, I'm a total Linux newbie, and this GCC thing scares me with strange vocabulary like "mount" and "bootstrap".
Apparently Ubuntu comes with GCC already, but I don't have g++. How do I get it? I tried searching the boards, but g++ is less than 4 characters. Go figure.
Thanks!
-Glen

I'm not a programmer but I can tell you where to start...
Open up the Applications from the main menu and go to Add / Remove and open up the category in Programming. There's a good sized list of IDE's in there.
If you want just the g++ package itself you can install it from System > Administration > Synamptic Package Manager and mark it for install. From the command line,
sudo apt-get install g++
should work also.

YAAAY! I didn't have to build it from scratch :D Thanks so much!
One quick question: after compiling a program, how do I run the executable? When I run it by double-clicking, nothing happens.

I believe it's the chmod command to change the attribute to executable, IE

chmod +x myfile

Alright, it works! Thanks!
Now I just gotta learn the language x_X.

Good luck!