should i learn it first ?

[Jason Orendorff]

Qiang.JL wrote:
> I am a student who have learned perl,java and other like data structure
> stuff. Now i want to take some further step to learn one or two 
> languages to improve my language view. There are two languages are on
> the list: python and C++

Learn C first.

> do i need to learn C/C++ to be a good programmer?

You can be a good Java programmer without knowing C.
You can be a good Python programmer without knowing C.
But every good *all-around* programmer I've met knows C.

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