C++ for Lazy Programmers: Quick, Easy, and Fun C++ for Beginners

© Will Briggs 2019

W. BriggsC++ for Lazy Programmershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5187-4_28

28. C

Will Briggs¹ 

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Lynchburg, VA, USA

 

If you know C++, you almost know C. Experience with C gets you another brag – one character long, so it should fit! – on your resume. C is popular for operating systems and embedded systems, and there are a lot of libraries in it.

C is essentially what we covered before getting to classes, excluding

• SDL/SSDL

• cin and cout

• & parameters

• bool (use int instead)

There are no classes, exceptions, overloaded operators, templates, or namespaces. structs exist but don’t have member functions or public/private/protected sections (it’s all public).

There are smaller differences, including

• Casting looks like this: (int) f, not this: ...