Programming languages and their use

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, wasab said:

You do need to know physics if you are gonna work on a physics engine in game programming or scientific simulation. 

They usually leave that to the math/physics majors.

 

And that's if you're rolling out your own.

[wasab]

2 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

They usually leave that to the math/physics majors.

 

And that's if you're rolling out your own.

these physics major/math majors usually do their own codings though. Many are trained for that. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

39 minutes ago, wasab said:

these physics major/math majors usually do their own codings though. Many are trained for that. 

If it's for an actual product, they will be doing at least the algorithm, and ideally they would do the actual coding. Otherwise what's given to the developer is the algorithm and if there are any issues with it, they'll have the person who came up with it figure out why.

[Franck]

On 6/7/2019 at 8:26 PM, Mira Yurizaki said:

If it's for an actual product, they will be doing at least the algorithm, and ideally they would do the actual coding. Otherwise what's given to the developer is the algorithm and if there are any issues with it, they'll have the person who came up with it figure out why.

That's exactly it. I have software for dealing with physics and if something doesn't match up good enough there is a specialist that fix the formula or verify if any of the software are wrong and give us the bottom line.

[MladenM]

On 5/31/2019 at 8:14 PM, Hi P said:

I've been taking the CS50 course (week 5 out of 11) and I really liked C, so I just bought a C course that I will begin once I'm done with CS50.

I'm aware that most programming languages can do mostly anything, but each of them have specific uses, for example, it's possible to do an android app in Python, but it's better to use Java, you could also do Neural Networks in Java (I think...) but you are better off using Python for that.

 

C : low level system programming, web and desktop dev

C++ : Gaming engines

C# : Windows desktop apps, Game coding in Unity

Java : Enterprise apps, Android dev

Python: Machine Learning

 

Thank you

 

 

Python is second best language for everything.

Anyway its mostly question of speed of development vs speed of compiuting. 

When it comes to compiuting, c is best but its very very slow to develope in. Pretty hard work. 
When it comes to speed of development python is fastest to develope in, but pretty slow when it comes to compiuting. 

You can work on backend web dev with c (and some websites like google now do) or with java but most reasonable option for most websites are django or js, because they dont have billions of request and  responses. 

Google had pretty nice philosophy, python where we can, c where we must. Most of google  was in python code and still is. 


 

[Dat Guy]

12 hours ago, MladenM said:

Python is second best language for everything.

If Python was the only language I knew, it would be my second best language as well.

[Hi P]

23 hours ago, MladenM said:

Python is second best language for everything.

I began with Python and really liked it as well, I still use Python time to time whenever I need to automate a simple task rather quickly  

 

But as soon as I began to learn C and C++ they stuck with me, I don't know why... although I'm still a complete beginner there's something about those languages that I really liked, I just don't know what it is.

 

I'm trying to learn a bit of everything (language wise, the fundamentals) before focusing on something, I really liked the desktop development path (windows specifically with C#) but everywhere I see there's people saying that's a dead end career path... so I'm still trying to find my niche

[MladenM]

50 minutes ago, Hi P said:

I began with Python and really liked it as well, I still use Python time to time whenever I need to automate a simple task rather quickly  

 

But as soon as I began to learn C and C++ they stuck with me, I don't know why... although I'm still a complete beginner there's something about those languages that I really liked, I just don't know what it is.

 

I'm trying to learn a bit of everything (language wise, the fundamentals) before focusing on something, I really liked the desktop development path (windows specifically with C#) but everywhere I see there's people saying that's a dead end career path... so I'm still trying to find my niche 

Likewise, I am working on cython skills hobbie wise. 

 

 

[Franck]

On 6/15/2019 at 7:11 PM, Hi P said:

But as soon as I began to learn C and C++ they stuck with me, I don't know why... although I'm still a complete beginner there's something about those languages that I really liked, I just don't know what it is.

That what a structured language does to you. 

[Den15]

been learning C for college... all I can say is I freakin love it, and performance is a blast

I don't think it's slower than other less strict languages, you'll just need to pay attention to what you're doing

 

EDIT: I meant slow in the coding proccess

Edited June 17, 2019 by Den15
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