On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Josh Lawrence wrote:
Sparing you a lot of useless back story here, but for fun a for personal amusement (NOT for serious work), I'd like to start learning a programming language. If I'm gonna learn one, I might as well learn something that gets a lot of use in the open-source world. So which one to choose? C or C++?
C is easy to learn and it's possible to master it very quickly. Many languages (esp. C++) have been based on its ideas and syntax. I recommend starting there. Good books will have titles like "C for Dummies" or "Learn C in 21 days."
C++ is a large, somewhat complex language that takes a couple years (at least) to master. If you get serious about programming, I recommend you move on to C++. It makes it a lot easier to structure and maintain large projects and reuse code. However, /how/ to use C++ effectively to this end is /not/ obvious. A good book to this end is "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckels. Avoid books like "Learn C++ in 21 days." Those books are usually just teaching a bastardized form of C.
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