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This is a strawman. The author is not advocating this as a first language: "Learning C is not necessary for everyone, but there are many posts on Reddit and pr
by jdbernard 11y ago
This is a strawman. The author is not advocating this as a first language:
"Learning C is not necessary for everyone, but there are many posts on Reddit and programming forums with authors who feel like they’re missing something, and I wonder if this is part of what they’re looking for."
- nikdaheratik 11y agoYeah, seems to be some confusion of the title. Probably a better title is "Why learn C programming?" The article itself isn't about "Learning to Program with C as a beginning language". And I don't know how I feel about C as a first language. I don't believe it would be worse than Java, which was the intro course at my Uni, but my first language was BASIC of all things, which is good in some respects as it really is a "Beginners" language, but both C and BASIC could encourage sloppy practices without good instruction and C especially has some gotchas.