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Re:Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science by com2kid on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:28AM (#7209634)
Ah may I ask which university? Mine also did Ada, then Unix in C, also Scheme thrown in there. Awesome progression, having learned Ada is really nice, it made me aware that there is a better way to do things, even if I never get to use that better way in real life!
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Re:Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science by pjmlp on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:48AM (#7209681)
That's the thing, many that learn only C think it is the only way to do system level programming.
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Re:Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science by com2kid on Monday February 10, 2014 @01:35PM (#7212753)
This is the #1 habit I have to break new developers of! If my team wasn't already so busy I'd hold classes on learning other languages.

The last team I was on held regular classes on F#, I'm sad the team got disbanded before I picked up a significant chunk of the language.

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