for anyone who would like to dev for the xbox at some point, your going to have to know how to program, and this c++ tutorial site seems to be extremely helpful. i'm still learning c++ and the XDK is too much for me at the moment, but i've learned a ton about c++ from this site

http://functionx.com/cpp

so anyone looking to learn, check them out. www.xfactordev.net has some excellent tutorials on the XDK for when you are confident in your programming abilities.