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solid3joe  ·  4350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: First question: Which language should I learn first?

I'm an electrical engineering grad student. My university combines electrical engineering and computer engineering into one department, where students can choose to be either EEs, CEs, or double major. The CEs get a lot more programming than I did, as I was focused far more on hardware as an EE. But the required programming classes I did take started us off on C, then assembly, then Cplusplus,then I eventually took electives in perl and python. Since this order of learning is all I've ever known, can anyone comment on what I may have missed like this? The whole thing felt very rushed in my opinion. Most of our programming clases revolved around programming PIC and AVR microcontrollers to perform tasks like a basic calculator, or a little keypad with passwords, or an led dimmer/pwm controller.