This. Learn Assembly together with C.. it will make C much more clear to understanding.. and then he can go for C++. For instance, in assembly you push/pop fro

This. Learn Assembly together with C.. it will make C much more clear to understanding.. and then he can go for C++. For instance, in assembly you push/pop from stack, or you move things into the registers and from memory, you will have to deal with memory address, etc.. So he will learn the most important background about thinking in C, like stack vs. memory allocation, and what pointers really are under the hood (the memory address of a thing)