If you type in hello world to the internet, you are going to be getting C and C++ versions and you are going to find out that both work. You can't hide the truth from beginners for any length of time. Imagine telling someone that they can't look stuff up on the internet in case they get exposed to "the wrong stuff"?
check out google on streams:
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.h...
And so far as google and streams, well that's their opinion and fits into their particular style. There's plenty of dev houses that would tell you to avoid C style string manipulation due to the dangers of stack overflows etc.
Anyway I'm not wanting to fall into a C vs C++ argument, I'm merely pointing out that it's very possible for someone to pick up C++ without having the slightest bit of knowledge of C to begin with. I sure didn't know any C to start with.
you even knew when you started that you had to append C++!