More than a half of my life I spent as a computer programmer, I wrote
programs in various languages such as: FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, PL/I,
PASCAL, C, C++, JAVA, VISUAL BASIC, DELPHI, and CSharp. I realize that
the most important thing in programming is the "algorithm", not the
languages' instructions. Languages change as the computer systems change
but the logic of algorithm remain as before.
To those who learn programming, you must master algorithm as the
foundation of programming. There are only three kind of algorithm logics
(1) Sequential such as read, write, compute, etc
(2) Selection such as: if/then/else and switch/case
(3) Repetition such as: for, while/do, repeat/until
If you know how to use these logics then you will master the programming
faster.