Re:What programming language should I start with?
by SwellJoe on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @04:15AM
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Don't listen to him!
C is a valuable language for a large class of problems. But don't learn it unless you want to be a real serious systems-level software engineer. If you just want to write software for the web (even large-scale apps), don't waste months on the intricacies of pointer arithmetic and memory management.
That said, I learned C, and it didn't hurt me any. But I doubt it really helped much either.
C is a valuable language for a large class of problems. But don't learn it unless you want to be a real serious systems-level software engineer. If you just want to write software for the web (even large-scale apps), don't waste months on the intricacies of pointer arithmetic and memory management.
That said, I learned C, and it didn't hurt me any. But I doubt it really helped much either.