This course takes an evolutionary approach to learning C++.
A C programmer will be able to immediately write simple programs in C++ and quickly gain the skills to write more complex functions and programs.
Rather than introducing object-oriented programming, we instead focus on the similarities and differences between C and C++, emphasizing C++'s improvements over C. By starting from the C perspective and moving to the C++ view of familiar concepts such as input/output, comments, casts, functions, structures, pointers, and arrays, you'll find the transition to C++ efficient and fun.
Object-oriented programming in C++ is covered in detail in the next two courses in the C++ for C Programmer series. If you would like an overview of object-oriented programming, click the Help button in the toolbar. This material is supplementary and is not necessary to complete Introduction to C++.

This course is programming-intensive. Many of the exercises require you to write, compile, and test C++ programs.