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- From: Marc Firth <mfirth@cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Learning C++
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:11:13 +0000
- Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.
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- Ryan Richards wrote:
- >
- > I am an MIS student and have a few compilers at home for both c and c++.
- > I have not taken any computer language classes yet but wanted to get a
- > jump start on c or c++ on my own. Should I learn C or C++ first? or do I
- > even need to learn C anymore? and would I learn the wrong way to programm
- > if I taught myself/learned from a book?
-
- There is a school of thought that you must learn C first *before* you can even start
- a C++ class, I think *most* people now feel this uneccessary.
-
- In my course here at University we started straight from C++ and the vast majority of
- people had little trouble. As C++ essentially encapsulates everything in C anyway (and
- replaces the, IMHO, nitty gritty aspects of C with new and improved ones, I think C++
- would be a better start.
-
- In any case tranferring from C++ to C is trivial, the reverse, however, is not so simple.
-
- There are plenty of excellent C++ tutorials on the web mybe you could give them a go -
- try a keyword search using one of the search engines.
-
- I hope that helps :-)
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- Marc Firth
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