quote: Original post by Mr Newbie

Well as i understand C and C++ are two way different things. I am focusing on mainly C++ and yahoo is mostly with the C programming...

They aren''t that different from each other . C++ is just C with some added stuff.


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If you want to program in C++, don''t bother learning C first. C was carried along to provide backward compatibility, not as a stepping stone to C++.

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C and C++ use the exact same syntax, do they not? As far as I know, the only difference between C and C++ is that C++ introduced classes, and made structs more flexible. So if you "learn C" and then "learn C++," you are pretty much just learning procedural programming and then building OOP on top of that (OOP=Object Oriented Programming)

In fact, that''s basically what I did. I didn''t learn about classes until my second-year computer course in high school

No, I would advise that you get the best book ever written on the C++ language: The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrop. Excellent book.

If you''ve never heard of templates or STL, you are missing out on some great features of C++. C syntax is not the same as C++; there are more keywords in C++, and slightly different rules regarding definitions, const, etc.

groucho is correct. Don''t use C as a stepping stone for C++. It is more trouble than it''s worth.