[joseph8th]

Biases because that's how I learned, but yeah... I agree. Learning C will help you be a better programmer in any C-like language.

C forces you to think like a programmer. Once you grasp that, you can learn most other languages with relative ease.

Maybe not counting Lisps.

[bombcar]

I highly recommend learning enough C that you at least decently understand pointers. That’s a major stumbling block and worth overcoming.