JS if you're more aesthetic. Visuals.
Python if you're more engineering focused. Bones.
Learn to code
Easton Scott
Levi Wright
Thank you for all the good replies. Really appreciate it. Sounds like Python is the way to go.
Hudson Jones
Other lads that have have learned Python:
I'm a beginner, and I breezed though the sololearn course not too bad. Some bits were a bit sticky I admit, like object orientated programming, but I understand how to copy/paste and get the right answers, even if i dont fully understand 'why' this is what you do.
Is that all there is to it? I mean, can you experienced lads just sit down and write a script to do this or that from scratch? Or do you crib bits from here and there and then de-bug, as I was doing?
I mean I know how to define my functions and import modules etc, but honestly, surely we're not going to reinvent the wheel every time we sit down to script?
Elijah Carter
Based solely on what my friends working in finance told me you should know python, vba, stata and things about databases. Oh and the whole Microsoft office package. I don't know if it's the same in the us
Christian Morris
>can you experienced lads just sit down and write a script to do this or that from scratch? Or do you crib bits from here and there and then de-bug, as I was doing?
30 years in the business here. I can do most of what I've done in my career from scratch, but the exiting part of this industry is constantly learning new stuff, which means I'm usually doing what you did, with new stuff all the time.
Gabriel Hernandez
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Dominic Russell
Learn python then javascript. Once you learn one language picking up another is 10x easier.
Although if you have trouble with either learn C++ first. If you're wired a certain way a lower level programming language is actually easier to grasp then a higher level one.
Also learn to scrape data from websites using selenium. There's lots of free information out there but it's not all in an easy to download format.
Michael King
If you're asking Zig Forums you don't actually want to learn shit and will fail because you don't like it youre just gonna keep asking beginner questions and procrastinate doing anything
Andrew Rodriguez
No, because once you get into the real world, youll need to approach problems like an actual engineer. And they'll expect you to create AND fix what you wrote unless you want to be an imported Indian bot programmer. Hence why you need to have a strong understand of the abstractness part of OOP. Its hard to grasp at first but over time it'll just become part of what you do.
Christian Jackson
How hard is it to learn C++ knowing Python and Go?
Trying to get into robotics