What type of coding should I learn?

racket wrote:

SQL (T-SQL at least) and JavaScript are both Turing complete, so technically….

But seriously you're right, Python is probably the best to start out of that list

A smart dev learns standard SQL so their current job is using Microsoft, their next job is Oracle, and the job after that.. same knowledge base. Picking up the quirks of each isn't hard.

Also worth noting there's a niche between full-blown dev writing low-level stuff and useless powershell. Frequently called dev-ops. A good dev-ops does lots of scripting and troubleshooting. These days it's python and shell.

Bought a book on Html/CSS/Javascript - Jquery.

Will start in on it tomorrow.

Going to combine this with online from codecademy. Once I get a little more proficient I'll start learning python.

Hoping to put in 6 hours a day 3 days a week and 2 hours twice a week for a total of 22 hours a week.

objective C and java, and for good measure and writing quick utilities to automate certain tasks if you're running on a Unix-based operating system: a shell scripting language/PERL

TheAnswerGuy wrote:

The correct answer: SQL (Microsoft BI Stack or Oracle)

Data will never go away. There is high demand for SQL programmers as well as DBA's if your not smart enough to be a programmer.

Don't let "No SQL" databases scare you away, it's a gimmick.

Good money and lots of opportunity.

You're welcome.

Your job as a DBA would be a lot easier if you at least knew how to script sql properly.

XML is not a programming language. It's a data markup language.

You'd need to know programming to use the libraries and tools to process xML files to interpret the data.

Make that Obj-C/Swift and Java if doing mobile app development which is still in high demand. Some older apps may be written in Obj-C, so it helps to know both Obj-C and Swift, as your job may require you maintaining some legacy apps.

Embedded C. The projected need for embedded programmers is huge, and the supply pool is pretty much empty. The problem is, most people can't do it and go into the other crap that every other poster has recommended.

Appreciate the suggestions but I want something that is fun and creative so that is why I've settled on front end for now.

In this order:

HTML/CSS (know it's not coding but will get me going)

Javascript/ JQuery

Python

PHP (maybe)

I need a challenge but also want to have fun designing and building things. I feel learning Objective C etc. to "automate tasks" wouldn't be very fun.

People With Brains wrote:

Embedded C. The projected need for embedded programmers is huge, and the supply pool is pretty much empty. The problem is, most people can't do it and go into the other crap that every other poster has recommended.

Probably not from a matter of not being smart enough to do it. It's just not fun coding in C unless you like working in the lower level stuff. Plenty of people who are smart enough to do something don't do whatever it is because it's not exciting to them...

And you'd need to have an affinity for hardware side of things as well if you're going to be an embedded programmer.

drcode wrote:

Appreciate the suggestions but I want something that is fun and creative so that is why I've settled on front end for now.

In this order:

HTML/CSS (know it's not coding but will get me going)

Javascript/ JQuery

Python

PHP (maybe)

I need a challenge but also want to have fun designing and building things. I feel learning Objective C etc. to "automate tasks" wouldn't be very fun.

Hmm you misread my quote. I mention learning scripting language to automate certain tasks or at least make them less verbose using a script that will do all the steps for you. For example, you might make a script that will move all of the image files from one directory to another, or rename, or build a project, etc. Much easier than typing out all of the shelll commands everytime you do something that's easily able to be scripted.

Objective-C is for iOS and Mac app development. Swift is replacing it but you'll need to learn it if you are going to be a maintenance developer (new devs usually do some maintenance work on legacy code before getting thrown into new projects).

But, if you want fun and creative, then of course, Android and iOS (Java and Objective C/Swift) are great options. How cool is it to quickly prototype something that you can run on your phone and showoff to your friends?

And for prototyping iOS apps, xCode is great. It has this nice feature called Storyboarding.

Yeah I don't think lower level stuff would be at all engaging or exciting for me which is the reason I want to learn how to code.

Want to:

A - Do something with my spare time!

B - Gain a tech skill that is both creative and in demand.

I don't mind the lower level stuff to a point. It helps when you are debugging to at least understand conceptually how it works. We have debugger tools in Android Studio (for Android apps/Java of course) and xCode (iOS) that allow you to walk through the execution of a program and see the state of different aspects of it at each point.

Debuggers are standard for most languages.

The only thing that might put you off from iOS development is the fact that you need to own a mac in order to run xCode...If you aren't in the mood for buying a mac, then I'd reconsider. Any other route for trying to learn iOS development would be too painful...

I own a Mac so that would be no problem.

Would you change up the order I intend to take if you were me Mark?

1 - HTML/CSS

2 - Javascript

3 - Python

Keep in mind I know barley anything and am just starting to learn (if you haven't read the start of this post)

My main reason is to have an engaging project (I only work about 20 hours a week so have a ton of spare time) and hopefully learn something that can serve me well in the future.

Fair enough. Working with hardware and understanding real-time systems is definitely a different skill. I work with so many people that don't even know how an operating system works.

drcode wrote:

I own a Mac so that would be no problem.

Would you change up the order I intend to take if you were me Mark?

1 - HTML/CSS

2 - Javascript

3 - Python

Keep in mind I know barley anything and am just starting to learn (if you haven't read the start of this post)

My main reason is to have an engaging project (I only work about 20 hours a week so have a ton of spare time) and hopefully learn something that can serve me well in the future.

I don't know any of those front-end web scripting tools.

You don't know what HTML and Javascript and Python are??

I do. I just don't use them. I never built a web page.

The only coding you need is to know yourself at the time of death.

You have no obligations to come back (reincarnate) to Earth.

Go where you wanna go where 1:44 marathons are a possibility

Right!

With that said, you only need to know, when asked where will you go?

"From where I originated, there I will go!" You are now free, who wants

to incarnated into a 3rd dimension Earth? Where you are now. Eech,

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