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My uncle told me to start with C back in 2010, and I'm glad I didn't listen.
He said it would teach me 'real programming' and everything else would be easy, but I got stuck on pointers for months and almost quit. I switched to Python a year later and actually built a small web scraper in about two weeks. Did anyone else get really bad first language advice that set them back?
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oliviabennett29d ago
My buddy had a professor who insisted on Lisp first. Dude spent a whole semester just confused about parentheses. Switched to JavaScript and finally made something that actually did stuff.
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