>>4
Let me elaborate.
C++ programmers do not understand when the tools their language offers are importand and shall be used and when not. They also can rarely combine them properly.
A C programmer, having written 10000 stacks, 432784723 linked lists, 3478124731284 queues, polymorphism, having spent 3248385932 hours on the design of the program, has more experience with using these tools (because he has to implement them, and has to implement them in a way that they will work together abstractly allowing scalability etc)
My suggestion: Start with C, code C for 4 years, in the meanwhile learn other stuff (haskell and lisp is a must), and then learn C++.