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Choosing a First Programming Language, in One Graph

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday January 24 2015, @01:02AM   
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.

• Another of the same. (Score: 1) by GDX on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:46PM

  by GDX (1950) on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:46PM (#137646)

  The true is that most people mistakes learning a programing language with learning to program, basically they mistake learning to use a tool with learning the skill, this not only applies to programing but also to image/video/audio editing, 3D modeling... most of this first programing language questions also fall with that mistake.

  For me a true programer have to learn at least:

  paper&pencil, there a lot of programers that don't known hot to use flowcharts or other diagrams.
  some assembler
  c
  a class based language: c++, java, objective-C... , if they learn various is better
  a prototype based language like JavaScript

  and is a plus if they learn FORTRAN, Matlab(scilab or octave also works), Perl and/or python