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Blogger Carl Cheo, who maintains a website providing numbered lists of tips for maximizing online productivity, has pulled together an easy-to-follow graphic answering the newbie question "What programming language should I learn first?" (pdf here). Cheo chose nine commercially viable languages as possible destinations as the viewer navigates the flow chart. Further down the page, there are tabs with annotated links to educational resources for each language. So what's in it for Soylentils, most of whom I'm guessing were programming newbies in the previous millenium? Well, maybe you have nephews or nieces who chose the wrong major in college. Besides, the graphic is amusing and clever, though probably not the last word on the subject.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:42AM
Scheme - good for developing theoretical understanding of computation and algorithms, pair with SICP. Exposure to Lisp, macros.
Python (or Ruby) - useful and practical for everyday scripting of tasks and quick software prototypes.
C - useful and necessary. Gives you performance. Portable assembly, more or less exposes the hardware implementation of modern computers and makes it easier to pick up assembly/machine code in the future.
Java - very prevalent in business, useful to pick up and get acquainted with a common OOP implementation style (although it's inferior to e.g. Smalltalk I hear).
Haskell (or Clojure) - Functional programming experience.
Shell - the pipeline, common shell programming forms, input/output redirection, job management.
Once you've picked up those languages or set of skills, you can pretty much pick up any other language and learn it in a weekend.
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