Christian Graus wrote:

This has to be the worst advice I've ever seen anyone given on these forums, ever.

Well I have to disagree with this. For any moderately intelligent person, learning C first is not going to make them a terrible C++ programmer. Just about everything you learn with C will provide a good stepping stone to learning any of C#, Java or C++. It's also the language of the Win32 API and very widely used in general, so well worth learning or at least understanding the basics of. Graeme