Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "the TRUTH about what programming language you should learn FIRST" video.

I disagree about the point on implementing a tree. If you really want to understand pointers well, write a tree data structure in C. You'll know both quite a bit better by the end. Of course it helps to have a good teacher and tutorials just won't cut it. If you can learn how by not allocating and instead using an array of pointers you'll be safer still without necessarily understanding pointers. If you use indices into an array, you'll definitely be safer and understand all the more.
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As to the schools, that's because they're run almost entirely by leftists these days. They're mental midgets who give participation trophies to ensure that no one is special because everyone is. Technical subjects shouldn't be taught by these creatures because they don't know what anything means or how anything works, they just want things to work on unicorn farts and sprinkles. As to the issue of mainframes using Cobol, the financial institutions that use them want something that is solid, not something that will need debugging and they're smart enough to see that new code is often garbage. Also, they don't like spending money where they don't need to, and since the old code works, why spend money to replace it with something untested and untrusted. So if you want to make serious bank, yeah, learn Cobol. If you want to make fun programs that millions know they're using and might make you good money, learn C++. If you want to make useful programs that people know they're using but might not make you good money, then learn C. No one will know you wrote it if you use Cobol, but billions will use it, so if you want fortune but no fame, then go the Cobol route.
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