What language next

[MemeMaster]

Hi,

 

I want to start programming again but i'm not sure what to start off with.

 

I've learnt the basics of Python, but I don't really enjoy it as I don't see how it could be used in the real world.

 

I'd like to start modding my favourite games to try and have more fun with them

 

Any tips?

 

Thanks,

 

- Meme

 

P.S. - I don't really see the point of carrying on with Python because next year in school I will be taught it for my CS lessons.

[beach_boy98]

Java is useful and helps with learning JS after. Or HTML 5 for web.

[0x550x42]

Try web development, it's fun way to learn a lot of languages like html, css, js, jquery, php, perl, etc etc

[REX.exe]

Australian is a great language to learn

 

Here are some basic terms:

 

Mate!

Aw, fuck off cunt!

Get me a beer mate!

You got a lighter mate?

Whats your problem cobba?

You wanna get smashed cunt?

[ZetZet]

Australian is a great language to learn

 

Here are some basic terms:

 

Mate!

Aw, fuck off cunt!

Get me a beer mate!

You got a lighter mate?

Whats your problem cobba?

You wanna get smashed cunt?

just mate mate mate mate and cunt once in a while, I think I can manage it.

[awsomecp173 (Senpai)]

C or C#

[REX.exe]

just mate mate mate mate and cunt once in a while, I think I can manage it.

Nah mate, there's plenty more to it. You thought learning binary code was hard? Try this one out.

 

Oi cunt, wheres your lighter at aye?

MATE, YOU TRYING TO TRESPASS HERE AYE?

 

Plenty more to learn young aussie legend.

[as96]

Australian is a great language to learn

 

Here are some basic terms:

 

Mate!

Aw, fuck off cunt!

Get me a beer mate!

You got a lighter mate?

Whats your problem cobba?

You wanna get smashed cunt?

while(true){    std::cout << "mate \n";}

[SIGSEGV]

Learn GML, you can do more fun stuff with it

[FatPenguin]

just mate mate mate mate and cunt once in a while, I think I can manage it.

u wot m8

[trag1c]

This thread totally got hijacked. 

 

Anyways.....If you learned the basics of programming you could try moving onto another language. C#, Java, C/C++

[madknight3]

It sounds more like you need to find programming tasks that interest you more than you need to learn a new language. With that said, there's certainly nothing wrong with learning another language. Programmers should learn multiple languages to become better.

 

You mention modding. What games do you want to mod?

 

 

I've learnt the basics of Python, but I don't really enjoy it as I don't see how it could be used in the real world.

 

This provides some discussion on that.

 

Also, here's a book I came across recently that seems interesting. Automate The Boring Stuff With Python. You can certainly do this stuff in other languages though.

 

And if you're into coding challenge sites (examples: Project Euler and Code Abbey), Python is a fun language to solve them in, but again, you can certainly use other languages. In fact, it can be fun to do them in multiple languages to see how different languages accomplish the same task.

 

P.S. - I don't really see the point of carrying on with Python because next year in school I will be taught it for my CS lessons.

 

If you know Python well before starting that class, you should ace any test or assignment given to you in that class without much effort. That may or may not be worth something to you.

[TechFnatic]

Hi,

 

I want to start programming again but i'm not sure what to start off with.

 

I've learnt the basics of Python, but I don't really enjoy it as I don't see how it could be used in the real world.

 

I'd like to start modding my favourite games to try and have more fun with them

 

Any tips?

 

Thanks,

 

- Meme

 

P.S. - I don't really see the point of carrying on with Python because next year in school I will be taught it for my CS lessons.

Dude, if you are going to learn Python in class next year I HIGHLY recommend you teach yourself as much of it as you can first because first year CS is going to hit you like a wall and while everyone else struggles to learn the syntax you'll already have a really good idea of how it works. Professors aren't going to help much so help yourself first! Goodluck!

[MemeMaster]

Dude, if you are going to learn Python in class next year I HIGHLY recommend you teach yourself as much of it as you can first because first year CS is going to hit you like a wall and while everyone else struggles to learn the syntax you'll already have a really good idea of how it works. Professors aren't going to help much so help yourself first! Goodluck!

I'm 14 and our teachers are really nice so they probably will help me

 

And ill probably learn it in summer anyway

[TechFnatic]

I'm 14 and our teachers are really nice so they probably will help me

 

And ill probably learn it in summer anyway

Ohh I see, sorry I just assumed you were taking the course in university, goodluck !

[patrickjp93]

C/C++ (including OpenMP and CilkPlus) which you can get a taste of in my "HPC For Dummies" Blog here on LTT. If you can pick it up Java comes much more easily, but the reverse isn't so true. C/C++ is very simple syntactically (once you learn how to set up your environment)

'#include <C++_Header_Name> || <C_Header_Name.h> || "your_custom_header_file.h" '

and

using namespace std; // or any other namespace

 

then you're off to the races to learn references, pointers, and the standard library. After that you can do data structures, functional programming, algorithms, and then dig into the juicy high performance stuff like CilkPlus. Once you learn that, you can start going multithreaded either by hand using C/C++ threads or by using OpenMP.