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Post #AsJm3OIGmDTN7SlZNw by [email protected] |
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Poll: For new programmers in 2025, is learning C a good starting point? |
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Post #AsJnW9xzDvJ72KYq8G by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Seems like a terrible idea to me. C is packed to the brim with footgu… |
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Post #AsJnjkeI9PRuZMpVyK by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft learn an assembly language first, any one will do, otherwise you are … |
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Post #AsJoGcQbjhRmd66MaW by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft It’s useful to learn C, for sure, but no, it’s not a good startin… |
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Post #AsJoHlVLTYQL4LreKW by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft depends how much you want to hate your new career |
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Post #AsJpHLSAQwTEE7k1Ro by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I nearly gave up programming for good after a summer camp attempted t… |
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Post #AsJpHSbdq7CyPXEBge by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft OH I so want to answer, but I'm not new, more well versed and tau… |
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Post #AsJq0DWyjfKogfO9BY by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft C is widely used (on 3 of the software teams I've worked on, usin… |
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Post #AsJrOKPotGwswY6JlY by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft well it's my first language and I'm still learning it. |
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Post #AsJsat6rp7h5yVmxYe by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Sure. C is, conceptually, a relatively simple language, although I wi… |
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Post #AsJtsF0bky46lqhQrw by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Either Rust or modern C++. Both allow highlevel and lowlevel develop… |
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Post #AsJvbI8D5qjfROIifI by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft One of my sons is in his second year of electrical engineering at Uni… |
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Post #AsJvmuChsg8yhpwTdQ by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] As a first language, probably not. But if you want to… |
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Post #AsJxr4o0bdM8eYVSxU by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft @kevin C has never been a good first language. When I was in college… |
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Post #AsJzngFrd1L9YA2mwa by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I started with Applesoft BASIC as a child and learned assembly langua… |
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Post #AsK294Au5bKjj536fY by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft If you're not directly reading registers and manually unrolling l… |
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Post #AsK3oDToUxFyPc50Ua by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft It's going to depend on why they want to learn programming and wh… |
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Post #AsK3yGOMWg4WL7JwzQ by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Today I would choose all sorts of things but not C - if it weren'… |
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Post #AsK54Czu9wnbVHHPHM by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I think, given it is the basis of the syntax in many later languages,… |
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Post #AsLzjQ3EJv1YS81S2S by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft C is the “Latin” of programming languages. |
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Post #AvqwZgWI66Ey4aaP8C by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I hear good things about Lua from newcomers, starting out. |
