I am stuck between which one to learn first: C or Python?

Question

As a beginner programmer, I'm learning that choosing a programming language to learn first is proving to be a challenge. Just reading on the internet, some people prefer Python as a beginning language and others prefer C as a beginning language. I want to get into the video game industry, and I just want to know which one is best to begin with? Also after I learn either one of them, what other programming languages should I follow up with?

Answer 1

I personally learned C++ as my first language, and have since been a moderately successful programmer. I always hold true to C++ as an excellent beginner language. It is incredibly powerful, without being too low level a language. Anybody can understand it, and if you master it, you're using one of the more powerful languages available. It's also one of the more largely utilized languages - along with Java, so finding libraries to use isn't a difficult task by any means.

Answer 2

Most programmers would recommend you to learn Python first, because it is easy, high-level, widely used while C is complicated.



My suggestion?

If you have absolute little to no experience in programming field, I'd recommend to actually learn Ruby, It is so easy to learn, it is high-level indeed and quite widely used. But that is totally up to you, if python & C are only in your option list, then go with python of course.



NOTE : The first thing you want to do to learn game development is the basic of programming, and then creating 2D games, like tetris.



C++ is used widely for games but C++ is still hard for your level so stick to python, or well Ruby maybe :D

Answer 3

i suggest you begin with C,because after learning concepts in C you can easily learn C++ and java

also the programming structure of C is used in C++ and java (bit modified and made more user friendly and

more better for other fields).