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by begueradj 842 days ago
When I was a student, I struggled learning algorithmic because we had to code in C. Luckily we had a wonderful teacher who listened to us, students, and switched his teaching to Pascal. That was a big relief to all of us.

I believe language like Pascal and Python are good to initiate you to algorithmic. After that, I agree you would need to dive into languages such as C, Rust and why not Assembly language to have a better understanding of your machine.

In our case, after one year of coding with Pascal, we spent the remaining years in focusing on C and C++ (Builder)

After that, it's time to move to pragmatic choices (job market requirements in terms ofdevelopment stack)