How different is C from C++, and do you think it is possible to learn both, at the same time?

Question

Currently studying C in College, buh I don't know if I can learn C++ alongside without probs

Answer 1

C++ has different headers (but C headers are also compatible), different syntaxes (e.g. main() must return int), and more features/concepts (C++ is OOP lang which deals with objects and classes).

Learning both together should be fine as long as you don't do C++ exclusive stuff in C. :>

Answer 2

Thanks for all ya answers pals

Answer 3

Yes but becareful as something has to be confusing although it is very possible

Answer 4

as i wrote in another discussion, c can be considered as a subset of c++. thus if you really know c++, you already learned c. but: if you need to operate on some restricted hardware you have to use the available c there (embedded systems, arm architecture). on these systems there might be no c++ available.

c++ is more like a combination of multiple programming languages or paradigms as already stated by scott Meyers in effective c++ programming. c is only one part, for sure the most fundamental. but beside c you need to observe:
- object orientation (c does not know classes)/polymorphism
- templates (c only knows the c preprocessor)
- stl standard template library
- new extensions in c++11/14/17 like lamdas

Answer 5

C++ can do everything that C has ever done. the major difference is that

C++ supports OOP and C does not.

You can even use the same header files and compilers to compiler either of them.

Answer 6

when you know C++don't claim to know C cause they're not the same but aren't that different

Answer 7

C and C++ are very similar.