Since everybody in here more or less agree, I will allow myself to counter just a little bit. There is no doubt that C programming is a very good skill and if

Since everybody in here more or less agree, I will allow myself to counter just a little bit. There is no doubt that C programming is a very good skill and if you see yourself programming a lot in the future, it is more or less a no-brainer. BUT it is still a trade-off. It will cost you time and this is time that you could have spent having fun, making money or learning some other skill instead. You could ask people in any field if X-basic-skill in their field is worth studying, and you would get similar answers. But yeah, you should learn C :-)