Learning C# before learning C?

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Hey all.

I'm pretty new-ish to programming. I have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and about 5 hours learning C... I gave up because it was some shitty (but probably good for master minds) free course from edX. (I still think I'd be able to learn C, the course just wasn't good for my learning style). Anyway, I want to learn C#. Should I learn C before that though? Pretty confused here so some advice from experienced programmers would help.

Cheers :)
 
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I think your good either way. Just pick one and stick to it. I learn pretty good by just looking at some working source code and modifying for my needs.
 
Id stick with c# personally if it is your first language. Its not the best language in the world but is very versatile and easy to pick up.
 
Ah.. there is a quite big difference there. C# is an object oriented language while C is not. The concept of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) won't be easy to learn at the same time learning the basics, if you're not sort of gifted of course. Also with OOP, there comes program design and there follows some UML modelling.

I would suggest to learn C as your first language then move on to other languages. Transition will be easy when you have the experience.
 
C# is way better for online stuff than C++. If you plan on online stuff go with c# for offline applications c++, as a general rule.
 
Well, as you are starting out programming I would tell you to stick to C#, PHP (even though it's a scripting language, it's a lot more powerful than what most of people think), or even Visual Basic. C/C++ and Java are stricter programming languages than the ones I listed above and therefore are harder to learn and actually developing something useful to yourself or to the masses.

All languages are different in a way or another. Choosing a language comes down to know what you want to accomplish.
If you plan to develop a bot to post to a couple sites I don't see why you should develop it on C/C++ instead of C# or Visual Basic.
Many people here vote down on Visual Basic, yet it's amazing how many bots written on Visual Basic are leading the market.
 
garthor said:
Well, as you are starting out programming I would tell you to stick to C#, PHP (even though it's a scripting language, it's a lot more powerful than what most of people think), or even Visual Basic. C/C++ and Java are stricter programming languages than the ones I listed above and therefore are harder to learn and actually developing something useful to yourself or to the masses.

All languages are different in a way or another. Choosing a language comes down to know what you want to accomplish.
If you plan to develop a bot to post to a couple sites I don't see why you should develop it on C/C++ instead of C# or Visual Basic.
Many people here vote down on Visual Basic, yet it's amazing how many bots written on Visual Basic are leading the market.
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Hes completely correct. I didn't know visual basic was an answer choice. I honestly think visual basic is easier to learn than c# and is more functional, however they are essentially the same. Visual Basic is just more lenient with new programmers. It depends what you want.
 
Thanks for your answers everyone. Really puts things into perspective for me. I don't really want to accomplish anything like building bots (well maybe at some point), I just wanted to begin learning languages and hopefully learn as many as I can. I'm using a mac. Is anyone else using apple? (Sorry Windows users). I got told that I can use xCode to program in C, are there any good YouTube tutorials for this? Cheers.
 
If you're using a Mac to write C# you'll need to get Mono, which is a software package that allows non-Windows systems to work with the .NET framework.
Aside from the syntax, working in C# and working in C are entirely different. A task like concatenating two strings is just one simple line of code in C#, while in C you have to reserve memory, make sure you won't accidentally crash the program by writing too big a string, etc. I doubt an internet marketer would even need to learn C, unless they were planning to write extremely optimized software; but in most cases, your bottleneck is going to be network speed.
 
As mentioned, just pick a language and stick with it. And practise practise practise. Programming, is IMO an art learned by doing, not reading. You won't remember what you read in a book in a year, but you will remember that bug that took you 3 days to fix Good luck And to answer the question, go with c#, unless there is a requirement to be so close to the hardware or something else, there isn't much point in learning C. You'll get work done a lot quicker (and bug free) learning C#.
 
No you don't need to learn C before C#.
Start with C#.
You are going to learn .net framework for C# this is the most important part but in in C you don't.
 
If you are going to develop software for iOS than go with Objective C, it is OO too.
iPhone/iPad/iPod apps are developed in Objective C and the developers are highly paid.
For windows C#, there is no need to start with C. The syntax and the operators are similar.

I am not sure why you are so "scared" of OOP, it is a relatively simple concept.
 
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C is the mother of all language so programming in c can make other languages easy for you
 
JP1016 said:
C is the mother of all language so programming in c can make other languages easy for you
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Thats true, but thats like saying latin is the mother of all languages and it will make it easier for you to learn english (or any other language).

Do you know how hard and archaic it is to learn latin?

Start by learning English, then when you understand fundamentals a little better, go for Latin to get better understandings of the very core of the language.


P.S: You can replace Latin by C and English by C# :)
 
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