C++ is a general-purpose programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or “C with Classes”.

C++ is a powerful general-purpose programming language. It can be used to develop operating systems, browsers, games, and so on. C++ supports different ways of programming like procedural, object-oriented, functional, and so on. This makes C++ powerful as well as flexible.

C++ is the hardest language for students to master, mostly because they have to think much. … Many other popular languages provide some cool “features” allowing developers to concentrate on their actual problem, instead of worrying about language-specific quirks (agree, C++ has so many of them).

As we know both C and C++ are programming languages and used for application development. The main difference between both these languages is C is a procedural programming language and does not support classes and objects, while C++ is a combination of both procedural and object-oriented programming languages.

Both languages share similar syntax and conventional methods and yet one first learns C before C++ is just because C was developed first before C++. But if you are new to programming then I would recommend learning C first because C follows the basic syntax and is easy to learn for beginners.