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posted by martyb on Friday November 04 2016, @07:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the choose-logically dept.

We've had this question asked before I believe but it does no harm in asking it again and again. After all, opinions change as does the software ecosystem. Quincy Larson of FreeCodeCamp.com asked this question via Medium: What programming language should you learn first? He thinks JavaScript is the way to go and his arguments are cogent and well thought out. However, I am somewhat hesitant to suggest someone learn to code in JavaScript first. My first programming language (in 1981!) was Fortran on a Control Data mainframe. The interactive environment the OS provided was pretty simple and the language provided few opportunities to hang yourself. JavaScript, by comparison, while it may not have those evil pointers of C/C++, it offers functional features and plenty of rope to hang oneself.

So, opinions please.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @08:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @08:34PM (#422611)

    on a 6510 cpu

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday November 05 2016, @02:41AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday November 05 2016, @02:41AM (#422723)

    Good luck finding one. Go with something you can actually find, like an AVR (otherwise known as Arduino). Having programmed both, the 6502 is VERY spartan. Go read a datasheet and tell me programming an AVR wouldn't be a lot more fun. And while finding a full reference book for the C64 was once possible, the AVR has plenty of free PDFs documenting everything with the exception of the QTouch controller in the very latest parts. Bad omen for the recent transfer of ownership.