With the latest versions of C and C++ they have become totally different languages that only share some keywords and syntax.
The more c you know the more you have to unlearn when moving to C++.
Look at this hello world progs.
Code:#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello world"); return 0; }Code:#include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hello world"; return 0; }
This post is a bit of a follow up to this:
I feel I should comment on this because I have been in this middle of C and C++ for the last year.Well... I do want to learn C++ Programming as well, but I'd just figured that I at least start with the C language and then slowly work myself right into C++; being that it's the "original" language sort of speak; right?
I don't find this to be true. The first language you learn always makes the second language easier, not harder.The more c you know the more you have to unlearn when moving to C++.
Speaking from the perspective of someone who has studied C++, then C, and plans to study C++ again - C++ is MUCH harder to learn as a first language. I know my C++ teacher I had in my college class believes there is no reason to learn C since C++ can do everything C can do and more, but I feel a lot of experienced programmers take for granted how difficult C++ is to learn as a first language. In my college C++ class, the only way the teacher could pass more than three students in 30-ish class size was to give out an unreasonable amount of extra credit during the last few weeks just for answering questions like "what is a prototype"? The questions had to be extremely simple even after a five-month semester. Half the students dropped by the time the class was over or just stopped showing up.
You can learn C++ first, but based on what happened in my class, I can't imagine more than 10% of people who attempt it actually succeed. And of course, that is not to say that no one does or that there might be a lot of people on this forum that did, but this may not be a great test group population.
Last edited by jack jordan; 11-12-2017 at 11:40 PM.
Did your teacher follow a pedagogical approach along the lines of that described by Stroustrup in Learning Standard C++ as a New Language (PDF)? A similiar approach was taken by Koenig and Moo for their academic course, later resulting in the book Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, though sadly it is now outdated.Originally Posted by jack jordan
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