I Want To Learn C, But My Friend Told Me, I Can Learn C++ Instead Of C. Becuase They Pretty Much Same.

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well, i think it's all up to you whether you learn C++ or C, they're actually really extremelly similar as your friend probably told you. They do! But if I'm you, I'd rather learn C++ since there are more features added in C++ that C didn't have since C++ is the evolution from C....

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C is almost, but not quite, a subset of C++. Nonetheless, effective programming in C++ is different to effective programming in C. Many C++ programmers simply program as if they were still using C, with a couple of extra bits thrown in.

The question really is what do you want to programme? What will you build, on what platforms? Learn the tool most appropriate for your use.

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Well, learning C is alright, but you'll run into many more problems than with C++. C isn't any more difficult than C++, but C has many more pitfalls that C++ helps to take care of. I recommend C++ because the learning curve is easier in the beginning. Not only that, but if you don't have very much programming experience, C++ will be easier to understand and figure out because of the way it was designed.

Also, the creator of C++ (originally C with Classes), Bjarne Stroustrup recommends that those wishing to learn C++ not start with C because there are different ways to do things in C++ that can actually hinder your ability to learn to use C++ effectively. I can't remember what book I found that in, but you can check something out here about learning C before C++ - Stroustrup: FAQ

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I would go with C++, because it is newer. Why learn the old version when you can learn the updated one?

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some people do learn the lower level language to understand the fundamental. It may also increases efficiency of the codes on the higher level languages. But I'm not sure whether there's difference between C and C++, are they both lower level language..? Or C++ is slightly higher..?

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Technically speaking, C is the updated one out of the two right now. :p

C99 (1999) and C++98 (1998) are the latest published specifications of those languages. The newest specification of C++, currently known as C++0x, is being worked on right now, and it is expected to be finished for ratification by 2008, meaning that the C++ standards committee is aiming for C++0x to be C++09 (2009).

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C is still the language of choice in embedded systems.

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can we use C++ for embedded system? Is there any particular reason why is that one of the choices...?

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If you can find a way to compile it, link it and get it onto an embedded system, you can use anything you like.

Embedded systems are much closer to the hardware than a desktop application, and as such the more low-level control the coder has, the easier it will be to make the hardware dance.

C is a little more low-level than C++; you could code in C++ without using the higher-level aspects, but then you might as well just use C. Old-school coders think of C as the choice for real-time situations, and embedded systems are all about real-time.

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