My uncle told me to start with Python back in 2018 and I didn't listen

He said it was the best first language because it reads like plain English and has a huge community. I was stubborn and tried to learn C++ from a dusty book I found, thinking it would make me a 'real' coder. I spent about 3 months just fighting with pointers and memory management before I gave up. I finally switched to Python last year and built my first little web scraper in a weekend. I wish I'd just listened from the start. Anyone else get some advice they ignored that cost them time?

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willow_king26d ago

Real coder" thinking got me stuck on Java for way too long.

johnb9525d ago

Tell me about it. I spent years writing factory factories in Java because I thought that's what "real" programming looked like. Felt like I needed a degree just to print "hello world.