What Programming Language Should I Learn for The First Time ?
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Today I want to discuss about what programming language should I learn ? First now there are a ton of programming languages for you to choose from you have Python you have C you get C++ you have sequel you have c-sharp you have Java, Swift and the list goes on forever however my point is not to sit you in overwhelm you with the number of languages that exist.
But it's important for you to understand first of all why the languages might exist and second of all which language should you start off with first right which is actually the most important question for you especially if you're watching this video and you want to know which language to pick.
So, if today a human being walked up to me who did not know the concept of language right let's say you walked up to me and he knew no languages. Whatsoever what language would I like to get him started off with and I'd be like. hmm definitely not Japanese right? that's one language I probably wouldn't want to start them off with simply because it's
a little complicated a little bit more complicated than say Spanish or English which are you know on the language.
Difficulty spectrum they're on they're on level one but at the same time if you think about this human language like
English and Spanish you can't say that just because they're simpler doesn't mean that they're very powerful they're
also spoken pretty worldwide and a lot of people understand them so even even though they're simple they're still
pretty powerful now let's transition that over to computer programming what language should I start off with well to
answer that question I would say start off with the simplest language. Right ??
Definitely do not get started off with a really complicated language because here's the fact. If you do not know the concept of language at all right and and I'm not saying you're a baby where you're near a plasticity is so high they can just pick
up anything let's say you're an adult and you just don't know the concept of languages you want to definitely start off with the easiest language. Because once you learn the concept of languageas a human being it's a way to express your emotions and ideas to other people.
once you learn that at it's very core you can transfer over to another language like say Japanese and go how do you say banana in Japanese how do you say this in Japanese at least you can look it up you have the tools to actually look that up and learn something in reference to another thing so in terms of computer programming ifyou know the simplest language then when you go over to another complicated language you can just go how do I do this thing that I do in this other language that I know in this language.
That I'm trying to learn okay so your research process becomes a lot simpler and the ideas are all the same you guys.
Like for example the emotions that American people or Italian people or Spanish people express people in Japan
or China express the same emotions right the tool that they use the language syntax the specificity of each language
might defer but at the edits very core we're still trying to express emotions of sadness happiness cherish hopefulness.
Whatever right computer programming languages you are trying to express ideas to a computer so it can translate
it for you right it's a really smart friend that is right there who's listening to you you just need to speak to him. okay now I want to talk about what languages maybe you should not start off with I would recommend that.
You not start off with C or C++ or C sharp pretty much any if to see languages and the reason is because there's some tactical difficulty level is much much higher so you have to worry about each little tiny detail or what you're saying to a computer will make no sense whatsoever, so not only are you bogged down by the conceptual difficulty when you're first learning computer programming.
you also bogged down by the sting tactical difficulty you know which is literally how you're typing something it
needs a curly brace it needs. This it needs that like embellishments. right?? um almost like if you're writing English in
your first learning and if you don't write comma or period or something like you're just not going to get understood
at all by another person that would be very frustrating to you if English was your first language.
Because you'd be like this is so like I don't know whether my problem lies in the fact that I'm speaking my idea is correct the way, I'm expressing it or am I having some kind of grammatical error, so start with something that's can just focus on the conceptual stuff first okay so start with something that has a syntactical difficulty that's lower understand the
concepts. right ?? in computer programming you have aconcept of looping over things so if it's one task that you want to do over and over again that's called the loop well if you learn what a loop is in one language you can very easily go to
another language and apply the same loop. if you learn what an if condition is if this then that right if Johnny worked
over 40 hours Johnny gets paid overtime.
That idea if you can learn to express it in one language you can very easily express it in another so my recommendation to you guys there are a lot of languages to learn but my recommendation to you guys would be to start off of the language Python.
Python there's a reason why it's the top growing one of the top growing languages in the world and if you look
at most of the top universities they're actually making that the introduction language and the reason why they're doing that is because of how elegant and simple it is now don't get its simplicity confuse with maybe that it can't do more remember Google, Dropbox,Pinterest reddit Instagram and I can go on but those were all built off ofPython.
Okay, even BitTorrent so all of these things were actually built off of Python YouTube was built off of Python a
surrogate grin I think that's who actually said it the the person. who founded Google pretty much. He said Python where we can see where we must which means we want to use the C programming language where we have to and pro Python programming language where we can okay now in terms of the languages. And where they work so like let's say you learn the language Python right and you start off with that language now you can always branch out and go to other languages.
Once you understand the conceptual difficulty and the conceptual stuff you can translate that over to any other language. Now, python is a powerful language that allows you to do pretty much anything that you want it's also important understand some of the differences between why you should pick another language.
Now let's talk about maybe once you're at a level of certain proficiency and you want to transition over another language why would you want to choose between different languages and work with one rather than the other in reality you're working with a lot of languages at the same time.
Now the reason why you want to pick one language or another is because of its benefits for example if you want to do a lot of stuff related to web development. Like front-end or nice graphics show and you click on something and things respond really fast.
That is called JavaScript that's the beauty and magic of JavaScript where you click on things and then drag down and
drop down menus and all this really fancy stuff. That you see on the web. T hat's done by JavaScript so for that
you want to learn JavaScript should you start off with JavaScript maybe I would still say you start off with Python then
transition over to JavaScript just to give you an example I worked on a project that was 30 hours long it's called agile directions. I might just even link it below so you guys actually can click it and check it out I did not know a single letter of
JavaScript but since I knew Python so well.
I just went on I would go online and just look up how to do things that I would do in Python how to do them in JavaScript. And I was able to bust out that entire giant project in two days okay so yeah now web languages you have JavaScript for data science and a lot of data analytical stuff and scientific stuff and eventhings like building responsive websites.
Python can help you python brings you tremendous amount of power and it makes it very easy to do really complicated.
Things why you might want to learn C or C++ maybe based on the speed that you need. C is really known for its efficiency so you might want to learn those languages if you're working in say. You're doing an algorithmic trading where you have to make each trade within a nanosecond you're making thousands of trades in nanoseconds right you need
something that's really freaking fast. So C might actually be a really good idea or C++ so linus torvalds hates the plus
plus he loves C so that's why I keep saying C first um so that's why Java probably one of the same reasons video
game design very popular powerful language Android applications Java is very powerful.
okay guys hopefully that gives you a little bit of an overview about different languages and why you should pick one of them. I would say start off with a very simple language Phyton would be my go-to choice for you and other.
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