Best programming language?

designing_zone said:
Html, Css, javascript is the best programming language
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Is this a serious response? None of these 3 are a programming language.

Html is a mark up language, javascript is a scripting language, and CSS is a style sheet language.

Because you know how to design a website does not mean you are a programmer.

You are completely disrespecting the true programmers, Apologize to the internet.
 


CCarter said:
Is this a serious response? None of these 3 are a programming language.... javascript is a scripting language...You are completely disrespecting the true programmers, Apologize to the internet.
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You can turn JS into a programing language to build web applications if you run Node.JS as your server. The same is true for Google App Engine.

I do, however, agree that conventional and practical use would require something entirely different than JS.
 
I learned BASIC when I was 10 or 11, then C/C++ when I was 13-ish. To give you an idea...when I got grounded as a kid, that meant no programming. During high school I learned PHP/MySQL and mastered it over the course of several years working mainly on personal projects. Now I work a 9-5 as a python developer, where we use python/django/postgres. So this advice comes from somebody who has been a programmer for 10+ years and spends 12 hours / day developing during my day job and at night on personal projects.

You don't need to be tied to any specific language, but if I had to recommend a single best language, at this point it would definitely be python. It's fucking fantastic for web development, as well as back-end automation, data manipulation, whatever.

You will need to know html/css/javascript, but learning those should be pretty easy.
 
It's also worth mentioning that some pretty big names such as instagram and pinterest run on python/django.
 
CCarter said:
Is this a serious response? None of these 3 are a programming language.

Html is a mark up language, javascript is a scripting language, and CSS is a style sheet language.

Because you know how to design a website does not mean you are a programmer.

You are completely disrespecting the true programmers, Apologize to the internet.
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"None of these 3 are a programming language." " javascript is a scripting language"

Seriously? I really hope you don't write software for a living.
 
Bofu2U said:
What? JavaScript is a scripting language, he wasn't exactly lying.
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I think the issue was he was using it as a pejorative. When in fact JavaScript is a turning complete language and suitable for all kinds of things the OP would want to do. If it's a great language that's up for debate.
 
crackp0t said:
I think the issue was he was using it as a pejorative. When in fact JavaScript is a turning complete language and suitable for all kinds of things the OP would want to do. If it's a great language that's up for debate.
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I agree to a point. For when it comes to developing a website, yeah a lot of people interchange the terms scripting/programming and JS has it's rightful place I don't think anyone would argue that.

I could just be having a bad day - but saying "I hope you don't write software for a living" because someone was factually correct is just dumb.

And this is why I just say "coding". :xmas-smiley-010:
 
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In all seriousness though, there's no silver bullet. An experienced programmer will be able to get up to speed in any language very quickly and probably is experienced in several languages. They'll choose the right language based on the project and their abilities.
 
crackp0t said:
JavaScript is a turning complete language
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At the risk of being classified an uber-whatever, I believe you meant turing complete.

LyteRyder said:
Actually making 100k+ as a web developer these days isn't that out of the question.
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Yeah... I live in NH, so my hopes are slim right now. I am NOT going to work in Boston. Good point tho.

lschmidt said:
... somebody who has been a programmer for 10+ years and spends 12 hours / day developing during my day job and at night on personal projects.

You don't need to be tied to any specific language, but if I had to recommend a single best language, at this point it would definitely be python. It's fucking fantastic for web development, as well as back-end automation, data manipulation, whatever.
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I'm right there with you pal. Nice point about python. I have to admit that I don't know it, but I've heard great things. Would you consider python better than PERL for automation and data processing? Just curious.
 
Javascript is badass, node.js, socket.io, mongodb, so many fucking useful libraries for WEB DEVELOPMENT both front end and server side *gasp* yeah server side, the same places where you'd use PHP or Ruby.

I use C# and have to take Java and Perl in school. Java and C# are similar.

I made a game engine in javascript for an html5 rpg game, because I was interested in testing out websockets for multiplayer browser games, but ended up going to a game engine where shit's that much faster scripting in C#.

I took visual C++ 1 and 2 in college 10 years ago but never got beyond making console apps and lost interest in it.

Autohotkey is fun as shit for a few things (botting in games). lol with imagesearch and pixelsearch functions
 
I think the best are php, python java. If you know thoes it is impossible to not succeed in web development.
 
As an IT student, all programming languages are hard to understand. For me the best or the widely used is the html/css/php, because it would be very helpful for the new trends online buying and selling.
 
The problem with inexperienced programmers asking about which programming language is better is that "better" can be subjective and weighted towards one's own syntactic preferences and the actual things that make one language better than another are either more advanced than the new programmer will understand or have cause to worry about, or are related to the frameworks and APIs surrounding the language. A language can be absolutely fantastic in the purest sense of the language but can still be somewhat useless in terms of the framework/library support used to connect the language to real-world tasks. Similarly, older, less-evolved languages with smaller or more-restrictive feature sets can still be a lot more productive to work with due to the ease with which you can get real-world work done simply because of the access to numerous existing, mature frameworks and libraries that an application might need in order to get the job done.
 
Python for everything you custom build, the ability to debug your shit without relying on a web server and shitty error logging saves you a ton of time and stress. Use Django for building sites with Python, it will also save you tons of time in setting up admin areas.

PHP for maintaining other people's shit.
 
Learn x86 assembly.

If that's too high level for you, you could always learn binary.

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