The tutorial given by Stewbond is good but it as a MAJOR problem. I already pointed it out to the author but who knows when it will be corrected. Before you read much of that tutorial, be sure you read my answer in this post: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/56526/ .
You won't have the problem WebJose described with CodeBlocks because it doesn't assume any particular character set, but you definitely will run into the difficulty he described if you use Visual Studio with the Forger's tutorial. You'll find more background on those issues here...