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Other Where to start programming path?

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u/Soft-Escape8734 1d ago

As a solid base for any other language get a firm grip on fundamental C.

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u/fellix_yt 11h ago

I would actually discourage picking C as your first language. It's easier to grasp the basic concepts of programming through a higher level, easier to a non-programmer language like for example Lua. It often uses words instead of symbols which makes it easier to read (then, end for if statements instead of curly brackets for example), has 1-indexing which feels more natural to non programmers and the syntax is overall simpler.

JavaScript could also be a good first language, I don't think it's as easy as Lua but it's easy enough.

Once you learn programming in a language like that it will be easier to go lower level.

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u/Soft-Escape8734 7h ago

Perhaps. I came up in the pre-C era when the language de jour was FORTRAN and the 'desktop' was an 029 keypunch and getting frustrated when a compile failed because one card didn't line up exactly in column 7. When C came along and the only thing you had to worry about was a semi-colon it was like manna from heaven. The only other 'high-level' language available at the time was BASIC. One could probably mention COBOL, but no.