Alright, I'm wanting to design a program that would be able to search eBay or Amazon for new items and then refresh. I've been told that C++ can do that but I don't know what I need to learn / focus on to accomplish my goal.
If anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be greatly appreciated.
You would first need knowledge on the C++ standard thoroughly. That is, understand every part of the language (a little bit of STL should suffice). After that, learn about computer networking and try to find a suitable library that allows you to communicate with other computers (ex. servers) over a computer.