Can I learn rudimentary programming from a book?

[radha]

NJ5 said:

Rpruett said:
I would start with C++. C is too cryptic in many ways and can be a hassle. Java is to abstracted from the actual machine IMO.

C++ will give you an easy introduction and understanding into what you're doing. As you grow with C++, you will be able to handle Java or most of what you want with relative ease.

That doesn't make sense. As other posters have said, C is essentially a subset of C++.  If you know C++ you know C too.

 

It is wrong to say C is a subset of C++, it si a preceding language not a subset, compailers compile c for backwards compatibility reasons not because they are the same, c is not object oriented , structures are suppoerted and there are ways to implement anything c++ has in c, but c++ has it as an standard, c is faster and more compacted.

Is not true that if you know C++ you know C too, because you need some work arounds to make C work like C++(at an advance state) that are not convetional.