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Varun06 on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Books every self-taught computer scientist should ...

what if somebody starts with some other language such as Java or Python. Is mastering in C must to be a good programmer?

ericmoritz on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

No, I don't think so. Those books were chosen not because they're good at teaching you C but rather because they're good at introducing you to concepts like memory layout, data structures and algorithms.

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