Which programming language I'm studying now (and why)
Published: Tue, 02/11/14
Yeah, I like to kick it "old school."
I have never really learned programming very well, and I determined
that in 2014 I'm going to become an intermediate programmer.
So why the C language?
It dates back to the early 1970s when a couple guys wrote it to
create a UNIX computer at Bell Labs.
C is tight, concise, and can be used across all sorts of computer
platforms. Even your calculator can probably run the C language.
Here's what's really cool...
Most of the commonly used programming languages today are actually
built on the original C programming platform.
In a way, the programs and websites that you use every day are
kind of like "the children" of the C language.
Like Children of the Corn.
Well * actually * now that I think about it, there are absolutely
no similarities at all to the movie.
Whatsoever.
Anyhoo...
Like you might want to learn Latin to build a foundation before
studying French, Spanish, or Portuguese, learning C helps to build
that programming foundation.
I'd like to someday build cloud based Web applications for
clients, and to do that I need to learn how to program in PHP.
I'm laying the foundation today (tonight actually, after the
kids go to bed) by writing code in the C language.
That's my way too many cents.
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