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When you say "concrete language (most probably C)" are you referring to using one language throughout each subject?



Not one language per subject. A separate subject to have basics strong. I feel learning C as a subject and getting concepts like pointers right might prove useful while learning datastructures and algorithms. The article assumes learning a language is very easy. But for a self taught programmer its easy to fall into the trap of straightaway going to high level language like dynamically typed languages. It would be more appropriate to learn C followed by datastructures followed by compiler design in that order.


Late reply, but looks like C is covered in the Computer Architecture section. How deep does it go into C? That I don't know.




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