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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.

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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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by toygeek on Sunday January 25 2015, @07:59AM

    by toygeek (28) on Sunday January 25 2015, @07:59AM (#137800) Homepage

    This gave me some really good ideas. Of course I know that nothing is really gospel, but, it's a good starting point. I started doing Udacity's Python/CS course a couple of years ago, but was not able to finish it (timing). But, I just signed up for Javascript over at CodeAcademy. It'll be a good starting point. Mind you, I've dabbled in programming since I was a kid typing BASIC commands from the book into the TI-99A or TRS-80. I fooled with TC++ when I was a teenager (and got completely lost at the concept of pointers). As a Linux geek I've written a fair number of Bash scripts (some fairly larger ones even). I attempted Perl once. And like most, I can code in HTML fairly easily.

    At the end of the day, I just want to be make computers do what I want them to do. It seems to me that right now, the best way to do that is with Javascript. It's relevant to just about any platform, and once I get going on it, I'll likely pick up another language. Maybe I'll attempt CSS again and get into web development, and then PHP/MySQL. But, Javascript is going to be the first language that I learn from scratch, through and through. No more dabbling!

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