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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.

• You Great Northern Pansies You Great Northern Pansies (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:44AM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:44AM (#137733) Homepage Journal

  Learn perl. It'd dead easy to just jump into so low initial learning curve and if you can find master perl you can master anything. Also, you're damned well going to need it if you ever decide you want to admin a *nix box.

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• Re:You Great Northern Pansies (Score: 3, Funny) by Geotti on Sunday January 25 2015, @05:29AM

  by Geotti (1146) on Sunday January 25 2015, @05:29AM (#137784) Journal

  if you can find master perl you can master anything

  I was looking for him for a long time, but when I finally found him in a nearby basement and knocked on his door, he told me to get off his lawn.

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