Quick (probably stupid) question on C#/C+++....+.

[Emerates]

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.

[Prpl_Mage]

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.

[Emerates]

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

[Osmose]

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.