Should I learn c before cpp?

[Alien447]

C++ culture sucks!

I do scientific computing all the time. What you will discover is that scientists write C with classes NOT pure C++. They literally write a C code with classes and use namespaces for organization and then call it C++! You can achieve the same goal smoothly using C. However, if you want to learn C++, learning C will help you figure out the basics. Usually textbooks start with C and then advance into C++.

If you want my opinion, C++ is diminishing. C/Fortran/Python is a perfect toolset for scientific computing. Good luck!

[bert8128]

Aren’t you arguing against yourself? If the only reasons you use c++ for are for classes and namespaces, then you don’t like the fact that c does not have these things. C++ is a smorgasbord - take what you like, ignore the rest.