What's the relationship between C and C++?

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@Schnitte

I know a little bit of Python (for hobby programming purposes, nothing at professional level) and would now like to get into some compilable languages. C and C++ suggest themselves as popular options here.

A while back I was in a somewhat similar situation:

Help me get back into computer programming

Here’s the TL;DR: What language, development environment, or other resources should I use to figure out how to make simple-but-useful, standalone, Windows programs/apps (on a strictly amateur level)? Now the background: Back in the 80s and 90s I was a fairly decent amateur-level programmer using BASIC, Pascal, and a smattering of other languages (including (Visual) C++) that I’d have to relearn in order to do anything useful with them today. Recently I’ve been playing around with Python, and …