In older women who are most at risk of developing cervical cancer (age 30+), screening has repeatedly been shown to be more accurate when the HPV test is done along with the Pap than when the Pap smear is used alone.
Resource Acquisition Is Initialization or RAII, is a C++ programming technique (C++ Style and Technique FAQ, isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines) which binds the life cycle of a resource (allocated memory, thread of execution, open socket, open file, locked mutex, database connectionâanything that exists in limited supply) to the lifetime of an object.
No. C++ is a superset of C; (almost) anything you can do in C, you can do in C++. If you already know C, you will easily adapt to the object-oriented features of C++. If you don't know C, you will have to learn the syntax of C-style languages while learning C++, but you shouldn't have any conceptual difficulties.