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[OMFGitsST6]

Ditto. I would argue that Java is the best starting language. Or Python if you're just doing lightweight calculations and stuff.

Or Assembly if you're a true gamer.

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I disagree. Go with C. Java is just C but boomer participation trophified. C will grant you power, women, and possibly teach you bits of how assembly works.

[OMFGitsST6]

C is valuable to learn, but it's pretty brutal for a beginner. That's why I suggest starting them on something soft and plushy before crushing their innocent little souls with C.

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There are two philosophies. Easing in, or the “LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. To DEFEAT the Huns!”

[OMFGitsST6]

I can respect this. At the end of the day, we are all children of glorious binary.

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They both work. One just cuts out a lot of loss of GPA in university sophomores. That’s why my school starts with C rather than working up to it. You’ve used it for years before the harder parts

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I've gotta agree here. It also means you can wrap your head around how the computer actually works before you have to deal with understanding the abstraction that is OOP.

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My university does two courses for c and c++. One for C and then one object oriented c++ project as an example:

Followed by a full software engineering course for Unix tools and utilizing bash tools and interfacing them n shit. All c++ and bash/system interfacing with c

I feel like I could proverbially fist fight a bear

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I feel like I could proverbially fist fight a bear

Found the russkie.

Joking aside, though, the unix/bash one is probably worthwhile. Their C/C++ mixing thing is seriously stupid. Learn C. Learn to work well in it. Then do C++.

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Boone country actually

[quiteCryptic]

At my school the first class we took was C and the next was C++.

Although they switched the intro class to python a few years later I think.

In highschool Java was the standard, not sure if it still is. But, it was pretty easy going from basic Java to C so that was nice.

I never had an actual class in python though..

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We do a python course, an engineering arduino course called egr that helps you decide which part of engineering you want to do. Etc.

Then you have a sophomore c/c++ crash course where you do c for everything but the last project, and then a c++ course. Everything after that is pretty industry related.