C Programming Beginners Questions

[Brandon W]

Well over the past few months I have been reading a lot about C++. In every introduction of each book I have read, it says that programmers recommend learning C++ if thats what they want and just skip C. As Winged said, that is the reason why. Bad habits and the only time you would jump into learning C is if you wish to work with hardware directly.

As for learning Objective-C for iPhone development, I was originally going to do that and I started to learn Cocoa. To me, at that time, Objective-C was a breeze and the only programming knowledge I had was PHP. I noticed the two languages are very different besides the basics. So it was easy but then I had some issues in real life so I stopped. I soon returned, just last week, to programming and now learning C++ just for fun then Objective-C.

If you want to do iPhone development, go straight to Objective-C. I have a VERY good book on it, I will find the name for you when I get home.

[outsid3r]

In my opinion it's ESSENTIAL to know C, then you can learn whatever you want... and it seems that i don't like objective-c to much... if C++ in the past was called "C with classes", then objective-c should be called "C almost with classes".

[Brandon W]

You don't need to know C to learn all the other languages, programming in C you can pick up bad habits. When you go to transfer those skills over to other C-based languages, it can be hard to get rid of those habits.

If you want to connect with hardware directly, C would be the way to go and learn that.

Objective-C is actually a programming language for OS X so it should be, in what you say, "C almost with classes for OS X". Why do you say "almost with classes"....

My opinion and that is yours, I respect yours