What books and software do you suggest to learn piano, reading sheet music, and music theory?

I'm trying to learn how to play the piano. I guess the first step is to figure out how to read sheet music. I was wondering if there was any software that will let me learn notes from the computer keyboard. Then I was hoping to get some books to learn how to actually play the piano, music theory, and also reading sheet music. Thanks.

What books and software do you suggest to learn piano, reading sheet music, and music theory?
You're really best off taking a few piano lessons in person, if possible. All the theory in the world won't help if you can't associate the notes to the keys and to the tones. Once you can get a good visual map of what C or F# *looks* and *sounds* like on the piano, then you can start looking at how it translates to sheet music. Once you get to that point, there are a million self-teaching books and videos, and you can pick one that will work best with a style of learing you like.
Reply:try volkwiensmusic.com and you can get books from barnes and noble book store www.bn.com
Reply:I think that youre wrong about that first step, your first step should be getting a goog piano teacher. But if you dont want to do that..





There are some keyboards made by casio and yamaha that come with a method, they have a little display with a staff and the keys have lights to let you know which key you should press along with the note being shown on the display.





Ive know many stubborn persons that have learned entire songs with those keyboards, if you are one of them, go get one of those keyboards, they are not very expensive.
Reply:I'm not sure about softwares but go to your nearest music store and they will 99% have piano books for beginners. have fun~