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I'm super grateful that my first exposure to programming (high school in Eastern Europe, 10+ years ago) was in C++. I don't think we even did a lot of C++ speci
by randomvectors 7y ago
I'm super grateful that my first exposure to programming (high school in Eastern Europe, 10+ years ago) was in C++. I don't think we even did a lot of C++ specific stuff so it was probably closer to C but using cout instead of printf. Covered things from if-statements and loops to sorting and tree-searching algorithms. It doesn't sound flashy and it somehow goes against the trend to try to make learning exciting, but it lays a really nice foundation in your learning.
- LandR 7y agoThis. I learned programming from doing C, and man am I glad I did. I thinm if my first language had been something like JS it would have been a major impediment.
- floren 7y agoYeah, the nice thing about C is that it really doesn't take much to start writing and running C. A text editor and a compiler is all you need, and unlike say Java there's not a ton of boilerplate you need to handwave when writing "hello world".