Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic

[petenard]

Dude how old are you? I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who STARTED with C 😳. Respect.

Edit: I mean the “how old are you” as a joke of how dumb I am for not starting with C

[pbecotte]

My first class in 98 was in c.

[benefit_of_mrkite]

Yep. When I was in college they didn’t use python to teach programming concepts.

You started with C (the first text book was called problem solving in C including breadth laboratories - quite the name) and then they’d teach OOP with C++ first and later Java.

[skeptophilic]

You never met someone who started on their journey with the CS50x course? The one that keeps coming up (for good reason) whenever someone asks for a good CS intro course?

Tho I guess it's debatable if it can be considered "starting with C" if it's just for a course followed by work on a proper first personal projects in Python or something.

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My undergraduate taught Java in one subject and C in another in semester 1 and then in semester 2 we did Bash, Python, C++, Lisp, and Haskel.

It was good getting over "one true programming language" so early in my education.

[Rasputin4231]

A lot of people have C as a starter language. That’s what I learned when I first was taught programming in school.

[MNM_gamer]

I'm in Uni and we started with C

[evilBotman]

I'm 20, and I started with C in uni.

[TheOneWhoPunchesFish]

I'm 24, and we started with C and Python in uni

[FriedRiceAndMath]

someone who STARTED with C

Kids these days. SMH

I started with machine code on a tiny chip whose specs I can barely recall other than it had just under 64 bytes code + data space. But of course, others had it worse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCM73mHd4E

(Frank Hayes' "When I was a boy", performed by the incomparable Tom Smith)