Learn Programming: Start With Python

Learning a programming language might be difficult for newbies or to those who have zero knowledge about programming. One of the hard thing in this is to decide which programming language to learn first.

I can still remember the first programming language that I have learned. That was way back 2004, when I transferred school and shifted from Electrical Engineering Technology to Computer Engineering. By the way, the language was the one that was created by Dennis Ritchie and now known as God’s programming language, the C.

 

Actually, if you want to start learning programming, choosing a language is not the first step. Studying algorithm must go first or together with. I guess, programming is better learned if studied together with algorithm in parallel.

In my opinion, C is a good language to start as well as Java and the one I am suggesting here, Python. C language and Java are almost the same in syntax. Your eyes would be hurt a little by a lot of parenthesis and semicolons. And that is one of the reasons why I am suggesting to start studying programming with Python. Have you ever heard the term “Pythonic”? Well, if not yet, you’ll get to know what is that for as you improve and can call yourself as a programmer.

Why I am suggesting Python to be the first language to learn by the newbies?

• First of all, the syntax is very simple. You can just do as simple as this:

print (“Hello World”)

• Python is a general-purpose programming language. You can use Python on mathematics, database applications, games, web development, etc.

• Third, the Python language is being used by some big names on the world wide web. Who are they? Just Google, YouTube, even Facebook has a python side, etc.

• And fourth, Python is also the first language being taught by big and known universities in the world on the Computer Science studies.

Now, start learning Python for free. By the way, I am not an affiliate of this. I just found this free course useful for newbies and for those who want to learn a new language. It’s a free online course offered to everyone by Coursera.org. If you’re interested, just check this link. I enrolled there too. Though, I already knew the basics, I just want to learn deeper and better. So, let’s be classmates?

By the way, here’s the link: Learn to Program: The Fundamentals