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Off-Topic => Really Old Stuff => Archive => General programming => Topic started by: Emerates on September 23, 2010, 03:57:59 PM

Title: Quick (probably stupid) question on C#/C+++....+.
Post by: Emerates on September 23, 2010, 03:57:59 PM

Are C# and C++ essentially the same things?  My dad has a couple of old books on C++ and I was just wondering if reading them would be useful in C#.

Also, any advice on getting started with C# and XNA would be halpful.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Quick (probably stupid) question on C#/C+++....+.
Post by: Prpl_Mage on September 23, 2010, 07:35:33 PM

As I remember it... Although I really don't know.
It's the same way of doing things. But all the terms are different. And it's also more flexible.

Title: Re: Quick (probably stupid) question on C#/C+++....+.
Post by: Emerates on September 24, 2010, 11:23:12 AM

So reading up on C++ would probably not help.

Title: Re: Quick (probably stupid) question on C#/C+++....+.
Post by: Osmose on September 25, 2010, 06:12:37 AM

C++ and C# are two completely different programming languages. Most of the things they have in common are the types of things that every programming language has in common (well, imperative languages at least, but that's way more than you need to know).

So, for the purposes of learning C#, a C++ book won't help you too much.