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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Learning C++
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Date: 31 Jan 91 19:02:04 GMT
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In article <1108@tesla.njit.edu>, fer9483@tesla.njit.edu writes:
> Just a quick beginner question here:

> DO I need to know C before attempting to tackle C++, or can C++ be learned on
> its own?

No, you don't need to know C before attempting to tackle C++, and C programmers
need to "unlearn" a lot of things before they become really good C++ programmers.
I wouldn't recommend learning C++ as your first language, however -- you should
know some other language first, say Pascal.

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Joe Buck
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