Which programming language should you learn first?

Welcome back! One of the most popular questions ever asked is “Which programming language should I learn first?”, this is a very strange question because there isn’t any real answer to it. To be honest, any programming language you learn is a great place to start, whether it’s C++, Python, HTML or whatever else, programming is alot more than just the language that you use. In my opinion, you must be able to think like a programmer, but there are still languages that fit certain job types more than others.

So Which Ones Are Better?

To be honest, the standard tech stack for each position is going to differ, a software engineer from one company can use totally different languages than another software engineer, but on average the core languages i’ve seen for software engineers are:

C / C++, Python, HTML / CSS, Javascript and Java

On top of this, a typical Data Scientist tech stack could look something like this:

Python, R, Scala, Julia, MatLab and SQL

Again, these are average jobs that i’ve seen, but now that we have the averages out of the way let’s go in a bit further here. In my opinion, a great programming language to start off with is Python, although it isn’t going to guarantee you a job by only knowing this…