<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:34 PM, K. Frank <<a href="mailto:kfrank29.c@gmail.com">kfrank29.c@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> If you want to go the c++ route, I would advise you to start with c++. To quote Marshall Cline, from his "C++ FAQ": [28.2] Should I learn C before I learn OO/C++? Don't bother. See: <a href="http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-learn-cpp.html#faq-28.2" target="_blank">http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-learn-cpp.html#faq-28.2</a> As Colin and Rob also emphasized, there are a number of disadvantages to learning c as a bridge to c++, and there is no real benefit. Except in specialized circumstances (which don't match what you say you want to do), I would not advise anyone these days to learn c as a language in its own right; learn c++, instead. C++ is the way to go. By the way, BASIC is not the way to go: Real Programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC... after age twelve. (Oops, my daughter is still twelve...) See, for example: <a href="http://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html" target="_blank">http://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html</a> </blockquote><div> I liked the last link you gave (<a href="http://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html" target="_blank">http://www.multicians.org/thvv/realprogs.html</a>), its cool. Though your daughter is not even twelve, and you are making her learn C++, nice, and she might be the biggest programmer, i guess. Agreeing with you. </div></div> -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia