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Thanks for the words. Maybe it's about the whole experience that I got in the beginning of career that several experienced folks told me "See, learn Python/Ruby

by braza 3y ago

Thanks for the words. Maybe it's about the whole experience that I got in the beginning of career that several experienced folks told me "See, learn Python/Ruby 'cause it has more jobs available and pay more". It was true on my demographic at that time. Along the time I was not exposed to those "low level" languages and it had the effect that I never had that perception. That's why I felt that my experience was subpar: In a point in time, I was living in a complete different epistemic universe even being on the technology.

gumby 3y ago
Everybody starts in a different place and nobody knows everything.
- Gud 3y ago
  Still, you can gain a lot of knowledge just by learning the introductory texts. In this case, Programming in C. Will it make you an expert C programmer? No. But it will absolutely increase your knowledge on how a modern computer works.
shrimp_emoji 3y ago
> It was true on my demographic at that time. Haha. It's true of webdev now, but I irrationally rejected that advice as hard as I could. Made job search more difficult. But, ever since I learned C, I felt that, if I can't "low level" program, I'd rather not program at all. >:] Inb4 C is a high level programming language. And it paid off: I now work with like-minded nerds and tech I'm passionate about. (As opposed to anything web-related, which gives me some kind of ineffable dysphoria for a multitude of reasons, some scrutable and some not.)