There are many factors involved in choosing your first programming language. This data can help you figure out what works for you.
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Get started. Forum Donate. Quincy Larson. I guess I should learn that. So hot right now. To narrow it down a bit, here are the most common Google searches related to learning programming, over the past 12 years: Java has had its ups and downs. Python has gradually risen to become the most popular choice.
And — as you can probably guess from the upside down text in my headline — that language should be JavaScript. Computer Science Universities have traditionally taught programming under the umbrella of computer science, which itself is often seen as an extension of mathematics, or tie-in to an electrical engineering degree. And department chairs generally stay the course, pointing to annual programming language leaderboards like the TIOBE Index , or this one from the IEEE : Most of these leaderboards look virtually identical to how they were 10 years ago.
But change does happen. Even in academia. And yet another change is bound to… eventually… happen. Data from Indeed. Factor 2: The long term prospects The average JavaScript project receives twice as many pull requests as the average Java, Python, or Ruby project.
Factor 4: Projects you can build with it This is where JavaScript really shines. Even better, is there a way can I put this on my phone so I can show it to kids at school without them having to install it? Then learn a second one. Python is awesome for science and statistics. Java is important if you want to work at large tech companies.
But learn JavaScript first. I wrote literally hundreds of programs all recorded to cassette tapes, which are probably unusable now because you can't buy cassette recorders anymore for that CoCo, including games, utilities and demos. I learned GWBasic in a 7 day summer camp organised by my college in Never needed to use it, however learned the basic of loops like If-then, for-next, which is basic coding concepts.
Later got some knowledge on javascript later in an free online course from Stanford. Mr first programming class was Fortran in about We used keypunch machines to create a stack of cards.
We then submitted the card deck for processing. Turnaround time was hours. By the time I took a second class, the university had installed a card reader and printer in a room that accessible to students.
Turnaround time dropped to about 10 minutes. We all thought how could it get any better than this. Man, I was fascinated to watch those asterisks blink as every line was loaded from cassette tape. I learnt the easy way what spaghetti code was and it took me years to unlearn the messes I created. It did pay off though as I got involved in a management system.
I'm rather fond of Perl. I also looked at PHP but never really did anything with it. C for me, though I never had access to a compiler. Atlas Autocode on a Titan computer at Cambridge University in the late '60s. I used it to analyze data collected on punched paper tape from a psychology experiment. The programs were also stored on paper tape which made changes a big deal, to say the least. My First programming language was Turbo Pascal in while in the 11 grade High School as a Form 3 student for the Kenya education system.
This was the first time to encounter a computer in my life and i was marvelled with curiosity. There no doubt about and i didn't know what pushed me for it bit I knew this was my where I was going to spend my energy that was being wasted repeating the subjects, copy and paste of teachers.
I was tired and bored of the bogus classes. For me they seemed useless and boring. I needed something challenging and I than God lead me to one of the right place. At the time in the school were no computer classes nor was it considered as a subject to be taught. One day i went to school bursar to take a few coins to buy tooth paste when accidentally told me to pick up a printout from the the typewriter. I picked it up and he told me i could help him type a few lines on his desktop computer Which was the only available computer in the entire school Soon i noticed that his machine had a new version of installed microsoft word office that was in disabled mode and he was having trouble editing his work.
I told him the reason and he wired the same information to the school principal who sought someone to buy the original office for installations. The guy who brought he office was joke my asked if he can teach computer in school and he said he can but he was still a post graduate student do in his Master in computer science. It never took long I was the first selected student to take the opportunity and three more students.
We were only four students allowed to go further with computer studies. We had only two desktop computers after one was added running on windows Our teacher since he was still a computer science student and he always told us to do more of learning and experiment on ourselves. On our finally year we were supposed to create a program and that is when coding started creating my first City Rental collection, Sewage and Parking system.
After highschool I never used pascal but had saved and kept the program in a floppy drive which later got distorted when joined medical school. My real in test was to study software development but I called to join the medical school where on my free time I started to peel back my nerd in computer science.
I restructured back the program in Pascal. I followed with SQL and made my first demo website. After graduating I noticed that the hospital was doing my internship did not have a health care database to store patient electronic records and most of the generation of reports was manual. I created a masterpiece database for the health facility. I took the opportunity to integrate computer science and Medicine routed to Health Care informatics.
There was no doubt about and i didn't know what pushed me for it but I knew this was where my interest was, somewhere I was going to spend my energy effectively. Energy that was being wasted with learning repeating the subjects, copy and paste of teachers.
For me the regular classes seemed useless and boring. I needed something challenging to me and I thank God I was led to the right place. At the time in the school there we no computer classes nor was it considered as a subject to be taught. One day i went to school bursar to take a few coins to buy tooth paste when the bursar accidentally told me to pick up a printout from the typewriter. I picked it up and he later told me if i could help him up type a few lines on his desktop computer Which was the only available computer in the entire school Soon i noticed that his machine had a new version of installed microsoft word office that was in disabled mode and he was having trouble editing his work.
I told him the reason and he wired the same information to the school principal who sought someone to buy the original microsoft office for installations. The guy who brought the office installed the office and urged the school principal to do computer maintenance or get someone to do better not referring to himself.
The principal joked and asked him if he can do that and probably teach computer studies in school. He did reject the offer and immediately said he can though he insisted that he will have limited time in the school since he was still a post graduate student do in his Master in computer science. The principal was OK and gave all the rights as long as the subject is introduced into the school curriculum.
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