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Choosing a First Programming Language, in One Graph

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday January 24 2015, @01:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the bicycle-chains dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:36AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:36AM (#137578) Journal

    Where does it stop?

    When the stack of turtle overflows. That is, you've got so many turtles stacked on each other that they cannot keep balance any more, and the whole thing crashes.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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  • (Score: 2) by jcross on Saturday January 24 2015, @11:34PM

    by jcross (4009) on Saturday January 24 2015, @11:34PM (#137720)

    Exactly, proving that just as the scriptures tell us, the world is on top of a stack of 1024 turtles, no more, no less. Well, I guess it might be implementation dependent. Huh, I wonder if these scriptures really were written by God, or was it just some guy...