I don''t want to get into a whole C++ or C discussion, or OOP argument, or learn what the capabilities of each language is. I know that the more diverse and larger amount of knowledge you have the better you are. But realistically, If somebody knows C++, is it important for them to learn C if they want to work in the game industry

By the time you learn C++ well enough, you''ll know C and C++ so don''t you even worry about that right now.

Actually, knowing C++ does not mean you automatically know C. Sure C keywords are a subset of the C++ keywords, but there are other things in C that are different, especially with the standard libraries. Simply put, the way you do something in pure C is probably different than how you would do it in C++.

That said, learning C once you know C++ isn''t a "must do", but it''s not that hard to do either, so, IMO, you might as well. I''ve had to both read and write pure C code in my professional experience, so it can come in handy.

Myopic Rhino is right. You don''t NEED to know pure C, but you do automatically know the basics of it if you know C++. If you like it, there''s no reason to really learn pure C.

If you code it, they will come...

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I agree with the others, if you have learned C++ you know the most of C, so you don´t worry and just learn it on the fly.
Still I think it´s a good idea to know how C programmers do stuff, because there are still alot of programmers out-there, who write code "the C way".
(I´m one of them, from time to time).

Then again, you don''t need to know C++ either.

Chances are you''ll end up learning them both.