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I was born in '74 so the last generation to start with C and go to other, higher-level, languages like Python or JavaScript. Going in this direction was natural
by limaoscarjuliet 4y ago
I was born in '74 so the last generation to start with C and go to other, higher-level, languages like Python or JavaScript. Going in this direction was natural. I was amazed by all the magic the higher-level languages offered.
Going the other direction is a bit more difficult apparently. "What do you mean it does not do that?". Interesting perspective indeed!
- lp251 4y agoI was born in the late 80s and C was my first language, in a community college intro to programming class.
- cbdumas 4y agoIntroductory programming courses at the University of Arizona were still taught in C when I was a freshman in 2008
- Hadarai5 4y agoI started coding with C and OCaml in 2019. Everything in between these two was so unnatural. With JavaScript as the worst of all
- sbaiddn 4y agoIm a decade younger and my university taught C for its intro to programing class. Granted it was a disaster of a programing class.
- user3939382 4y agoWhat was nice about C then was that, based on my study of CPUs at the time, you could pretty much get your head around what the CPU was doing. So you could learn the instructions (C) and the machine following them (the CPU). When I got to modern CPUs it's so complex my eyes glazed over reading the explanation and I gave up trying to understand them.
- untech 4y agoThis was my experience with learning programming as well, however, I am 2x younger :)