most of the newby-orientated info I have come across so far assumes that you already have a degree in C!! - which I don't.
Have you checked out Lady Ada's tutorials? I've heard good stuff about them from other newbies (I'm not necessarily a good judge, since I've been doing software for about 40 years, and electronics for almost 50).
I just wish I had a compiler that could take BASIC instructions and convert them to C.
There used to ba critter known as BASTOC (possibly back in the days of DOS). It didn't turn up in a quick google search, but something called BCX did. I have no idea whether it's any good, but it might be useful to run it against some simple BASIC programs and see how the constructs you're familiar with are expressed in C. Or it might generate godawful (bleep) that teaches you terrible habits. Caveat programmafactor 