Re: Learning to Program
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C++ is not going anywhere, and learning C++ before learning .net and java is going to be a lot easier than the other way around.
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I definitely disagree with this. I learnd Java first, and its a much more natural progression. You can learn Java which takes care of a lot of mundane details for you, and has better documentation. Once you've got that down moving to C++ is fairly straightforward. You just have to learn the things that you now have to do yourself.
I also think that learning C++ is a lot harder to do 'academically'. There's a lot more tricks that you have to pick up, that are really hard to do without a bunch of experience in it.
But I definitely agree that C++ isn't going anywhere. It'll be around for decades still. Although it won't be the most popular language and will start to fade away.
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