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Best way to learn programming:

1) Learn logic
2) Learn assembly
3) Learn C

At this point, two choices: stick with C or learn whatever high-level languages/paradigms suit what you want to do.

Almost everyone does the exact reverse.  First learn BASIC or Java, then attempt to understand what's going on underneath (and probably never get around to it).

If you go from the bottom up, each step gets easier and there's no mystery hiding what's going on under the hood.

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Here's the thing about correctness.  Since I know how registers (and RAM) work, I know that when I add 1 to 4294967295, I will get various results depending on the platform and the compiler and the data type.  Since I know how pointers work, I know why I need to be careful when writing a linked list.  And when shit gets really nasty and multithreaded, I know exactly how to protect that linked list, correctly and efficiently.

Now you can argue that all this is low-level shit that you don't need to worry about, but all you're really doing is relying on someone else to know it for you.