I think you should learn C only if you will be able to learn enough of it to be very comfortable with it when you get to college. If you learn that much, you ca

I think you should learn C only if you will be able to learn enough of it to be very comfortable with it when you get to college. If you learn that much, you can place out of the courses where you learn C. However, if you learn only part of C and still have to take the course, you will have to suffer through many lessons teaching you what you already know. I say this from experience – I learned Java in high school and was taught C++ in college (just finished my freshman year), and about half the lessons were about stuff I already know, like the difference between a value and a reference/pointer to that value, and what an object is, and how while loops work, and other exceedingly boring stuff like that. So if you can’t learn C quickly enough to place out, save yourself the trouble and just learn it in the university courses, so that the courses will be interesting, because they are teaching you something new.