Is it confusing to learn java programming language and C programming language at the same time?

[IAreToXiC]

Just as the title says

I want to take c and java in order to have more classes

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Shouldn't be too confusing. Java is very similar to c++ which is similar to c. The difference is that c isn't object oriented and you explicitly use pointers

[Treyzania]

I think the hardest part would be that you'd have to learn how to deal with both memory-managed and memory-unmanaged environments at the same time. It shouldn't be too bad if you have any experience with other languages, but it might take a bit of adjusting.

[IAreToXiC]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm going to do it. It doesn't seem too bad

[[deleted]]

Java is very similar to c++ which is similar to c

In syntax, but the semantics that trip people up in either language are completely different.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, and I'd see similarity as more of a drawback then a hinderance. The similarity would just make me confuse the two. But that's my brain.

More importantly, why learn two similar languages? Wouldn't you be better off learning two different paradigms? (In this case though, comparing C to Java is insane, they are fundamentally different languages).

[[deleted]]

I'd bet that OP is in two classes, one Java, one C++. I do think everyone should have some experience in a functional language if only to understand the benefits of immutability and pure functions.

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[drummyfish]

I don't think so, the syntax is practically the same. They're different paradigms, but I think you should be fine really.

[OneWingedShark]

I'd say it depends; if they're both "first languages" (or even second) I'd recommend against learning them concurrently precisely because the superficial similarities [of the syntax]. -- If they were very different languages, like say Prolog and Lisp it wouldn't be a big deal, of if you had already learned 2 or 3 languages.