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Learn C as a second language?

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Re: Learn C as a second language?

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May 8th, 2008
See the Read Me Starting "C" at the top of this board. You posted right over it.

Its good that you are studying assembly language but I would not have picked it as my first programming language because assembly is not considered a good way to program. That is, the language is chucked full of jumps and gotos. You will have to unlearn all that in order to code effectively in any of the higher-level languages. In other words, assembly language teaches you a lot of bad habbits.

The second reason not to learn assembly as a first language is that there are very few people who actually program in that language any more. Most programmers code for years without even seeing any assembly language code.
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