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The one that is most comfortable for you to use is the best coding language. Having said that, you need a project of some kind. Any kind at all. It doesn't mat
by simonblack 4y ago
The one that is most comfortable for you to use is the best coding language.
Having said that, you need a project of some kind. Any kind at all. It doesn't matter what that project is, because you will throw it away, and more than once. And that project will show you how to code, and along the way you will find your best coding language.
So start your project. Oops you don't know how to do that. So learn how that part is done. Then progress further. Oops, you don't know how to read a file. So learn how that is done, then progress further. And keep on doing this, tiny bites at a time of the project until one day the project is done.
So you look at that project. Along the way you have discovered new and better ways of doing things. Ways that are better than how you coded that part of your project. What to do?
So .... Throw that first project away. Now, rewrite it using all that new knowledge that you have picked up along the way. And you look at that project again, with even more understanding of how to code. You know what? I'll throw that project away again. It wasn't as good as I could have done it.
So you rewrite that project a second time, again including the new ways of doing things that you have learned since doing that project the second time.
Are you game enough to look at that project the third time? Because almost certainly you can now see better ways of doing things that you keep learning all along the way in doing that silly little project three times.
I have a silly little project like this. It is an emulator of the first Z80 computer that I first assembled from a huge box of components way back in the late 1970s. That emulator has progressed over the years as I have rewritten it probably more than a dozen times, and it has got more and more complex, more and more visually attractive over those dozen or so iterations.
Is it the same silly little project it started out being? In some ways, yes it is still the same. On the other hand, it is a completely different 'kettle of fish'. Along the way, I have learned about programming in three different families of Operating Systems. I have learned about two or three different ways of emulating hardware, I have learned how to convert a text-interface into a graphical interface.
And I discovered the programming language that 'works best for me': 'C'.
When I first looked at 'C' I didn't like it at all. Back then I was happier using Z80 and/or 8086 assembly language. That changed about the time I moved from MSDOS to the UNIX family of Operating Systems.