C++ would be a better choice. Most programming languages these days are object oriented. There is some support for them in C with structs, but C++ is easily more easily fleshed out (full objects, operator overloading, templating, etc). Once you get the OOP down, go back and look at C, you'll be glad you learned c++ first (not knocking C, it can just be a little bit harder on the eyes to read).

Neb