I started to learn programming (and C) by doing Harvard's CS50 course. It was only after couple of years had passed that a lot of the things I learned then - al

I started to learn programming (and C) by doing Harvard's CS50 course. It was only after couple of years had passed that a lot of the things I learned then - allocating memory, pointers, writing functions that in other languages would be abstracted away into a library - have begun to really seem of value to me. I wonder whether it is better to start with Python or JavaScript so you feel productive and can see more immediate results from your programming, or to start with C so that very little of programming is "magic" to you. I still haven't arrived at an answer, but I agree that some exposure to writing C is something that I would highly recommend.