Which programming language you should learn

[Bradley Prior]

Which programming language you should learn

Programming is one of the most powerful skills you can have in the job market today.

Competency in the field of programming can provide a massive boost to the value you provide to your employers, and programming itself has become an increasingly attractive occupation.

 

[konfab]

Pity Twitter will ban you if you tell unemployed journalists that they should learn to code.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Answer: All of them.

 

[cleask]

What, no Cobol?

 

[skimread]

Python is becoming popular but I don't see many jobs in it

 

[Messugga]

What, no Cobol?

Fortran is where it's at!

 

[Thor]

Python works very nice for lambda on aws.

but I prefer php7 for most of my projects

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Python works very nice for lambda on aws.

but I prefer php7 for most of my projects

Only problem with that is that you have to admit you use php.

 

[Thor]

Only problem with that is that you have to admit you use php.

I don't use PHP, I fokin heart PHP!

<3

 

[swift412]

What, no love for Swift?

 

[cguy]

Graaf said that C++ was the first true object-oriented programming (OOP) language

Uh huh...

 

[jannievanzyl]

BASIC

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

BASIC

Delphi 4 FTW...

 

[ekske1]

BASIC

Only after you've mastered snakes in it

 

[CT_Biker]

I can tell you what you should not learn first.

JavaScript and ES6.

 

[Creag]

My daughter is learning to code with Delphi (school gr10). No idea where this fits in with any of the coding languages, but learning something is better than nothing.

 

[ekske1]

My daughter is learning to code with Delphi (school gr10). No idea where this fits in with any of the coding languages, but learning something is better than nothing.

or trying to ride 3 horses at same time

 

[cguy]

My “language” order: LOGO, BASIC, Pascal, Assembler, C, Scheme, C++, Java, C#, Cuda, Python, R. Excluding brief tryouts of COBOL, Clipper, Prolog, Smalltalk and a few other others. The last 10 years have been C/C++, Python and R.

My overall takeaway is that I am really glad that I did a bottom up approach, learning how the entire system worked, before learning the high level abstractions and CS theory. I believe that people often limit their careers by either staying low level or staying high level.

I.e., Learn both C and something new.

 

[Voicy]

My daughter is learning to code with Delphi (school gr10). No idea where this fits in with any of the coding languages, but learning something is better than nothing.

From what I remember, Delphi is very similar to Turbo Pascal, which is what we used at school in the 90s. It formed a reasonably good basis for me to learn C and C++ on.

Even if it's not an active coding language, it lays a solid foundation for her to apply to other languages she chooses.

I've forgotten everything by now, but I've been trying to practice a bit with Python classes on youtube etc. I'm terribly rusty though.

 

[FairUsageSucks]

What or where are the good coding colleges in Durban?