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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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That's an amazing post; it doesn't address anyone's points or queries (especially the OP's), it doesn't take a position on the topic (instead, it targets people on both sides of the argument without actually contributing to the discussion), and it's not even original.  It took some effort to be that useless, didn't it?  Now take a seat while the adults continue their debate.

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The participants in this debate fall into two (well, three) camps: academics and professionals (and trolls uninterested in the subject).  The academics are concerned with the most technically correct solution to the problem -- they want to write an implementation that results in the most efficient machine code, regardless of the development cost.  Professionals, on the other hand, seek to write an implementation that balances efficiency with expense  -- there's no margin in doing it the academic way.  (And the trolls don't understand the issue at hand, they just like a good fight.) 

Being a professional, I use high level languages that remove the time-consuming details through abstraction; that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the academics' viewpoint, just that I don't subscribe to their approach while I'm working.