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Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?

Thanks in advance.

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English Teacher wrote:

> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?

Learn C. It is not necessary to learn either C++ or C#, but you may if you
wish. Nevertheless, you should learn C before learning either of those.

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English Teacher <> wrote in message
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> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?
>
> Thanks in advance.

I'll get in before E. Robert Tisdale this time and point out that this is an
obvious troll. Please ignore it.

DW

English Teacher wrote:

> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?

If you want to learn C, learn C.
If you want to learn C++, learn C++, and then forget all the obscurantist
stuff.
If you want to learn C#, shoot yourself before you spread the virus.

[rec.woodworking, rec.photo.digital, rec.photo.equipment.35mm,
comp.lang.c++ removed. "English Teacher" is a well-known illiterate troll.]

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"English Teacher" <> wrote in message
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> Should I learn C first?

Yes.

> Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?

Yes.

> Thanks in advance.

You're welcome.

-Mike

Micah Cowan wrote:
> (English Teacher) writes:
>
>> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Why the hell is this message cross-posted to newsgroups on
> woodworking and photography? Follow-ups fixed; please desist from
> posting to newsgroups which are not relevant to your question.
> ...

This is the same moron that's been wasting bandwidth and ASCII
characters in rec.photo.equipment.35mm for quite some time now. Just
ignore him.

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(English Teacher) writes:

> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Why the hell is this message cross-posted to newsgroups on
woodworking and photography? Follow-ups fixed; please desist from
posting to newsgroups which are not relevant to your question.

If you wish to learn C, then learn it. If your sole desire is to
learn C++ or C#, then you are much better off learning C++ or C#
without going through C first. In particular, if you learn C
hoping that it will give you a boost in your understanding of
C++, you are probably mistaken: you will have to unlearn several
things from C that have been changed in C++. Moreover, there are
things which are considered proper and correct in C that are
considered poor style in C++, and vice-versa; and both viewpoints
are often correct given the context of the separate languages.

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Micah J. Cowan

Micah Cowan wrote:

> (English Teacher) writes:
>
>
>>Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Why the hell is this message cross-posted to newsgroups on
> woodworking and photography? Follow-ups fixed; please desist from
> posting to newsgroups which are not relevant to your question.
>
> If you wish to learn C, then learn it. If your sole desire is to
> learn C++ or C#, then you are much better off learning C++ or C#
> without going through C first. In particular, if you learn C
> hoping that it will give you a boost in your understanding of
> C++, you are probably mistaken: you will have to unlearn several
> things from C that have been changed in C++. Moreover, there are
> things which are considered proper and correct in C that are
> considered poor style in C++, and vice-versa; and both viewpoints
> are often correct given the context of the separate languages.
>
lol maybe he needs to learn to C so he can take pictures and make a table

In <> Micah Cowan <> writes:

> (English Teacher) writes:
>
>> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>Why the hell is this message cross-posted to newsgroups on
>woodworking and photography? Follow-ups fixed; please desist from
>posting to newsgroups which are not relevant to your question.
>
>If you wish to learn C, then learn it. If your sole desire is to
>learn C++ or C#, then you are much better off learning C++ or C#
>without going through C first. In particular, if you learn C
>hoping that it will give you a boost in your understanding of
>C++, you are probably mistaken: you will have to unlearn several
>things from C that have been changed in C++. Moreover, there are
>things which are considered proper and correct in C that are
>considered poor style in C++, and vice-versa; and both viewpoints
>are often correct given the context of the separate languages.

Things are more complicated in the real world.

What kind of C++ programming do you intend to do? If it's supposed
to be limited to the high level of C++ (i.e. using classes already
implemented by other people), then there is little point in wasting
time learning C.

If you have to use C++ at its lowest level (i.e. you have to implement
your classes from scratch), few C++ tutorials provide enough coverage
of the low level C++ features (many of which are basically the same
as in C). This is where previous knowledge of C usually helps.

Dan
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English Teacher wrote:

> Should I learn C first? Or can I go straight to C++ or C#?
>
> Thanks in advance.

This person should be reported to their ISP for network abuse.
This issue has already been discussed in news:comp.lang.c,
news:comp.lang.c++, news:rec.woodworking before. The
clue is news:rec.woodworking.

Please use your favorite search engine and search these
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