What to learn first

[marex]

I'm just wondering about all that C/C++ stuff.

Which books shoul I buy to start.

C or C++ or Visulal C ?

Is there much difference between C and Visual C?


cheers
Ray

[denniswrenn]

Microsoft Visual C++ is an IDE/Compiler for the C++ lanauge, it is not a language in itself...

If you want to do really fast stuff with really small executables(Mike(parksie) says they're about the same size as ASM executables, C++ ones are only a little bigger, not really much to matter, IMO), learn C, but otherwise C++ is probably the way to go.

[HarryW]

My opinion:

Learn the stuff that's common to both C and C++ first. That's the fundamentals, and that's what probably 50% of the questions in the C/C++ forums boil down to, with most of the rest being OO questions or platform-specific API stuff. You just really need a solid understanding of pointers, references, arrays and strings before you worry about any of the higher-level C++ stuff.

Dennis is right though, C++ is probably the way to go once you've got the basics well learnt.

[marex]

Well...


Oke, here we go, first C, after that C++.

Thanks guys for the new challenge.


Ray