My bachelor’s in software engineering starts in quite a few months

I am thinking of downloading Linux and learning the Linux terminal using the Linux bible.

then learning video, photo, and vector editing.

After that finishing the rest of the cs50 except the scratch one.

Lastly, becoming extremely good at Python

How does it all sound?

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t worry about what your first programming language is. Every language has something to teach you. If you continue on in programming for any length of time, you will learn many languages. There will always be new ones, too.

    It helps to learn languages that come from different paradigms or approaches to programming. This gives you a better sense of what a language can be; what it can do for you. There are languages with a lot to teach, and they’re often the ones popularly considered “difficult”.

    Learn Haskell. You might never use it professionally, but it will greatly improve your understanding of what programming is. And no, you don’t need to be a mathematician to use it. (Recommended text: Graham Hutton’s Programming in Haskell, second edition.)

    Learn SQL. You will use it professionally, sooner or later, and you’ll be better off actually understanding your database than trusting libraries designed to hide your database from you.

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      1 year ago

      In my opinion the first programming language that you choose does influence how you learn and perceive new languages.

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        Oh sure, but so do the second and third and nth. When I write in Go today, I’m much more influenced by Python which I learned in the early 2000s than by BASIC which I learned in the 1980s, or even Scheme which I learned in the 1990s.