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Just curious, why choose Python to learn first? Is that what most here would recommend?
by traybould 19y ago
Just curious, why choose Python to learn first? Is that what most here would recommend?
- timr 19y agoPython gives you the nice features of modern, dynamic languages (you might not know what this means, but trust me: they're nice), while still forcing you to think and write clean code. Plus, it's not academic -- Python is a full-fledged, big-boy language, and people use it regularly for real work. There are other languages that you could learn first, but Python offers a really friendly cross-section of features and flexibility that makes it an attractive beginner's language. It's definitely the language I would teach to first-time programmers, given no other constraints.