Reccomendation for C++ Learning

So ive read a short EBook on C++ and it was supposed to teach me how to code using C++. But it wasnt to easy to follow and wasn't to thurrow. I know bits and pieces of C++ but not enough to start from scratch. I'm tired of working of other old scripts i want to make my own from scratch. I know no one has time to teach me but how did you learn and become good at it to understand it all? What books/programs or just tell me how your path that lead you to where you are today.

If you are not good at C++ please dont respond telling me your whole journey and just to find out you too suck. This is for to help me become better.
Also i will be going to school for game design next year but i want to get a headstart and learn C++ since that's what they will teach you first.

first of all i recommend you a book, check out the programming tutorials section for some.
otherwise, like i did, go through the c++ documentation(you can do the same with a book) and at the same time follow Thenewbostons's(youtube channel) c++ tutorials which are really good, so basically what im trying to say is read through and understand the chapter in the documentation/book then go through the relevant tutorial in his channel. They're only around 4-8 minutes, so one of them everyday should be good.

dont forget to code everyday, if youve read a chapter or not , just code! a small simple program, it improves your skills and you will start remembering layouts and getting used to fixing bugs etc If you didnt code at first like i did (all i done was reading and understand) then whenever the time comes to write code you'll need some sort of reference so you can remember the layout-which is bad.

My recommendation and other fellow c++ programmers in this forum prefer a book over anything.