do I have to know C++????

The differences of C and C++ from its founder's (Bjarne Stroustrup) point of view:

1) C++ is a better C.

2) C++ supports data abstraction.

3) C++ supports object-oriented programming.

(if it is not clear what (2) and (3) mean, don't worry for now).

- About 90% of C is just used the same way in C++.

- C++ has offered a better alternative for about 8-9% of C. But those features are still in active use in C++.

- About 1-2% of C is no longer valid in C++.

So, you can see that C is still alive in C++.

Besides, C++ supports data abstraction (generalized concept of abstract data types like vectors, matrix, complex numbers, ...) as well as object-oriented programming.

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comment about object oriented programming.

In the conventional procedural programming, a program consists of variables of simple types, and programmers use the functions (and procedures) to manipulate the variables.

A variable has a type and a value.

More complex variables are arrays (a collection of variables of the same type) and structures (a structure is a variable with multiple fields of different types and values).

In object oriented programming, a program consists of objects of different classes which interact with each other.

An object is a generalized concept of a variable.

A class is a generalized concept of data types,

An object (and a class) does not have a value like a variable, it has properties, methods and call-back-methods called events.

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Therefore,

- If you choose to learn C first, you should know that you are learning the first half of C++.

- If you choose to learn C++ directly, you should know that when you have finished, you already know C.

It doesn't really matter which one you learn first. So, why not learning the better one, C++?

No you should first learn c then c++

Beacuse c is the base language of c++

If you first learn c then it will be easy to learn c++.

You need to learn C first and then C++

C is a basic of c++