if you know any language of certain paradigm you can figure how to do basics in different one in an afternoon
To mater it you will need months tho.
Only electrical engineers should learn C as a first programming language. People telling you to learn C are just /g/ memeing. Idiots complain that Python is too easy, but it is an ideal learning language. It has simple syntax, a huge and well documented standard library (including a nice enough GUI framework), and runs equally well on Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD machines. As an added bonus, there are lots of companies that use Python and hire Python programmers. You'll get more gratification with less frustration learning Python than C, and that's critical for someone who's just learning. Asking a total newbie to learn C first is just short of setting them up for failure. Lots of wizards learned using BASIC; think of Python as 21st century BASIC.
If you need to learn C for a specific purpose such as writing microcontroller code or an operating system or whatever, learn it then. Don't worry about pointers and malloc and undefined behavior and nasal demons unless you absolutely have to.
really awful novice reason to learn C … you are almost lying.
C, C++ for performance , but like a stick shift, its the most difficult to master
all the other ones are literally like learning a different language in that you can say the same thing in every world language, you can program the same thing in every programming language
and if you cant then you must be a journalist that doesnt know how to code, idiot
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The future is Bots and Data Science.. both of these primarily rely on Python and R. Python can do almost anything; and it’s very easy to learn. There is also a great community and catalog of tools.
Python will be the language of the Revolution.
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Python is the language of the SF soyboy. Every language can do "almost anything", that's meaningless. Python is very bad at doing everything, and only people with low IQs who can't learn a real language use it.
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That would be JabbaScript
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>>12731511
>>12731520
Almost every language has some unique and interesting feature that can only be experienced in the language, because to "fake it" in CPP will be extremely annoying, and cause you to not perceive its usefulness.
>>12731590
Don't listen to the shop talk. You can have the crappiest 1st language, and it won't fuck you for life.
IT'S BETTER TO LEARN TO CODE IN A CRAP LANGUAGE THAN TO NEVER EVEN FUCKING LEARN TO CODE
>>12731634
Honestly, nerds are just as rude about coding as jocks are about socializing. It's easy, sure, if you spend like your fucking life thinking about it, and having a natural gift for it.