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[–] 16413725? ago 

Besides making me a melon sized balls having Chad, would knowing C also potentially make me a more useful asset on the job market than say, Python?

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[–] 16433576? ago 

The future is Bots and Data Science.. both of these primarily rely on Python and R. Python can do almost anything; and it’s very easy to learn. There is also a great community and catalog of tools.

Python will be the language of the Revolution.

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[–] 16433580? ago 

Python is the language of the SF soyboy. Every language can do "almost anything", that's meaningless. Python is very bad at doing everything, and only people with low IQs who can't learn a real language use it.

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[–] 16418857? ago 

Only electrical engineers should learn C as a first programming language. People telling you to learn C are just /g/ memeing. Idiots complain that Python is too easy, but it is an ideal learning language. It has simple syntax, a huge and well documented standard library (including a nice enough GUI framework), and runs equally well on Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD machines. As an added bonus, there are lots of companies that use Python and hire Python programmers. You'll get more gratification with less frustration learning Python than C, and that's critical for someone who's just learning. Asking a total newbie to learn C first is just short of setting them up for failure. Lots of wizards learned using BASIC; think of Python as 21st century BASIC.

If you need to learn C for a specific purpose such as writing microcontroller code or an operating system or whatever, learn it then. Don't worry about pointers and malloc and undefined behavior and nasal demons unless you absolutely have to.

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[–] 16422705? ago 

If you can't hack C you'll never make it as a programmer and you should never even try. In fact, I'd say you should start with ASM to know how computers really work.

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[–] 16422694? ago 

The reason why you should learn C is because most programming languages are derived from C in their syntax. Meaning that if you know how to use C, you know how to use 80% of the commonly used languages. IE, Java, C++, PHP, C#, you get it.

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[–] 16418863? ago 

Asking a total newbie to learn C first is just short of setting them up for failure.

Thats the point. Set the journo-fags up for failure.

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[–] 16413756? ago 

Python is designed to be easy to learn. If you know C, you can figure out Python in an afternoon.

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[–] 16413761? ago 

>>12727599

if you know any language of certain paradigm you can figure how to do basics in different one in an afternoon

To mater it you will need months tho.

Fucking retards

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[–] 16413759? ago 

If you know Java and Python, you can figure out C in an afternoon.