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Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse by 0_gravitas on Saturday April 11, 2020 @10:58PM (#22845737)
Learning C first would also introduce students to all of that as well, outside of the magic shell of Java and its tooling; get your compiler, get your text editor, and you are so much closer to the action. If I could have chosen what I started with I would likely have picked C, or possibly a LISP as well.
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Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse by DeathArrow on Sunday April 12, 2020 @04:37AM (#22846800)
I went through Basic - > Pascal - > C - > C++ - > many other kinds of languages.

Thanks to C and C++ I did understand the most important bases of programming, how a program runs, how hardware works and the most important algorithms and data structures.

I think it's important to learn something that doesn't do too many abstraction but it isn't too low level like the assembly language.

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