We are going to talk about my top three programming languages for beginners for 2019

We are drinking coffee at this coffee time. This is instant coffee

That's sour now. I received an interesting question the other day from drew

He's some 14-year old kid and you know when I think about these 14-year old kids

I remember

Just how stupid their I just want to kick some kids right now now drew here is asking about how he can get into

Programming he wants to get into an internship or something about that. He's very interested in computer science

And I think that's a great question and I wanted to share some information about how you two can get into the field get into

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I think it's important to realize that there are a number of different paths that you can take

I might break it down into two paths one path is the traditional computer science path

And then the other is more towards the self path and with the traditional course

You may go through college you learn a bunch of computer science fundamentals

Data structures algorithms operating systems and you may work in a variety of languages

You might have a data structures class in Java a compilers course in C

Maybe another course in Python or something like that and you kind of slowly go through a number of languages

None of these courses really teach you the language very well

You just learn a few rudimentary

basics about how to use the language at the very high level and

Then you work on the assignments and it really focuses more on theory

eventually over time this path may lead to jobs in which somebody goes into a heavier weight language something like doing memory management and

C++ for graphics programming or working on the server back-end in Java or Python?

But I think that if you're like a 14 year old or if you're just starting to begin to learn to program and you don't

Really have time to go through an entire four-year course education and you might want results faster than that

You might want milestones as you go through such that within the first few months

Maybe you already want to be able to land some sort of internship some entry

Our job and then from there you build up your computer science education some more and learn some more programming

Get more into the theory into the fundamentals and algorithms and then get into heavier weight languages like say C++, Java

Objective C. Something like that

These languages may require more consideration for performance systems design organizing the code structure better

I think that it would be a lot to expect somebody who has zero programming

Experience to suddenly become very good si Android development

And so if you have absolutely no programming experience

And you want to get into the field and you want to get an internship?

I would say that even if you're on this four-year college course where you're going to get into these heavier-weight

Languages and maybe eventually you want to be like a C++ graphics programmer or something like that?

you're still going to want to be able to get some internships along the way just to bulk up your

Experience and this is to recommend the path I have for you get into web development

In my personal opinion web development is a great area to get into and there's plenty of job

Opportunities for every single level of experience and they can help ramp you up and get you those

Valuable internship experiences get you those entry-level jobs that will help you eventually build up a more solid

foundation for your programming career

So concretely I would recommend first getting into say HTML CSS make some basic websites get your environment set up

this will get you to actually understand what programming is going to feel like what's gonna be like and

Even though HTML isn't like a real programming language. It's essentially the same things code

It feels very similar to code and they will get you into that mindset

once you have most of that down you can start getting into say

JavaScript JavaScript is a great language because it's very visual

You can have colors you can draw things

You can position elements around and it's also extremely useful you can use it to create entire websites

Just knowing HTML CSS and JavaScript. You can already start setting up websites

You can even start collecting payments

if you wanted to you can connect to

JavaScript frameworks that say stripe or PayPal have set up and if the only thing you know is HTML CSS and JavaScript

Guess what? You can order to get the job

it's called a front-end engineer and there's many positions for this if you were to learn one of those newer JavaScript frameworks like Vijay s

Angular react, you know, these are newer areas. There's not that much competition

I mean, they're still going to be a lot of competition

But it's not going to be that bad and the field a front-end engineer generally doesn't require too much computer science fundamentals

algorithms data structures

It's really about gluing pieces together making a website

Functional delivering a product and there's a lot of fun to do as well in my opinion

targeting to be a friend and JavaScript engineer is one of the easiest and simplest paths to getting yourselves into a

Programming career from a position in which you have no prior experience

Now in order to better understand the field of software engineer

It's important to realize that there's not that many different types of Engineers. You got like algorithm programmers

These are people who are working and say C++ Python doing back-end artificial intelligence machine learning

Maybe on computer graphics, maybe on search rankings, and that's great

I would say that this area is going to be a little bit more difficult to break into it's possible to do but it's generally

an area that you might want like a complete computer science degree to get into and then you have a few areas like mobile and

web for mobile

We're talking about Android or iOS development for Android you're working in Java or Kotlin and for iOS you're working in Swift or objective-c

These are generally languages that may require some manual memory management and systems design

These are errors that you can get into if you're feeling confident

but the web stack is even simpler to get into for the front and you've got

JavaScript which we talked about and then for the backend you may be working and say Python or PHP maybe Ruby on Rails

And so looking at it this way after learning JavaScript. I might consider getting into a back-end language like say PHP or Python

I think Python is a more structured language PHP may be a little bit easier to get going if you were to get that set

Up and hook it up to your JavaScript code you'd be what we'd call like a full stack engineer

You're working on both front-end and back-end great area to be into this is an area

I would say that a lot of people kind of get stuck on

primarily because in order to

Get into the back of the work. What you need to do is go out and buy a server

You need to rent one of these and it's pretty cheap actually like you can get a back-end server for like five bucks a month

register domain name for like 10 bucks or a year and

you would be all set up you could have an entire website running and throughout all of this most of the code that you

Be writing would just be glue code to glue pieces together like Lego building blocks

you can get a lot done essentially and

Employers are going to be impressed because you're going to be launching products out there

one thing you might be careful about is just learning a language like say Python and

Not launching anything or say Java because the fact is all of us know Python all of us know Java

The question is really how well do you know these languages?

You know if I see 10 candidates and everybody knows Java what I'm really interested in knowing is well

What did you do with the Java?

did you launch an entire Android app and

Make it really popular or did you just learn a little basic Java and use it for a course project?

So this is why I recommend that you do project based of elements such that you don't only have a language that you add to

Your resume. You also have an entry an entire project that you can put on your resume that indicates

This is what you did. These were the challenges that you face

This is what you launched take a look and the website looks nice looks clean, and it's entirely functional the great thing

Is that websites are very visual? They're a lot of fun

They're very useful and you can show them off to your friends to your family. Lots of people can use it

It's going to be a good

Validation for you and be a good milestone as you progress forwards and your knowledge and say Python and JavaScript

They're going to be very useful for any other area that you may want to get into eventually

now from here

You might want to start specializing in to an area

Whichever area you choose you may want to get into say iOS development you go with Swift or objective-c for that for Android development

Java or Kotlin you could get into game programming using unity c-sharp

You could get into computer graphics programming using C++

Machine learning AI or you don't even have to get much deeper than that

You can just stop there as a full stack web developer and there would be plenty of career opportunities

For you right in that area

I would say though that in the typical project team in any large tech company

You're going to have three basic types of engineers

You have the Android engineer who's working on the Android side the iOS engineer and then you may have the back-end

Engineer this back-end engineer is working in say Python or PHP

Working on the API calls that the front-end mobile clients are going to hook into there may also be a friend an engineer doing JavaScript

Sometimes this engineer would also be combined with the backend engineered like a single full-stack engineer or something like that

So you might want to pick one of these areas to dig further into

and so you can see that the great thing about this plan that I've laid out for you is that if you get into mobile

development

knowing some JavaScript may be used for any ways because you may be working in the language like say react native which uses

JavaScript and mobile development

It's also going to just be good if you want to get into say front-end development almost every company is using a lot of JavaScript

These days it's going to be good to be able to read that code if you pick up Python for say back and work well

Python is a great all-around language for general scripting crazy and developer tools writing scripts to help speed up your workflow

So there you go. I think the way to think about this is not to think about learning just a single language

I think just one single language is not really going to cut it in this field

You want to think about a set of languages my recommendation then to HTML CSS?

Learn JavaScript first then get into say a back-end language, maybe Python or PHP

Then get into say a heavier weight language with memory management

Systems designs data structures heavier weight computer science fundamentals like that

I would recommend for iOS get into Swift or for Android get into Kotlin or Java

I might also give a special mention for c-sharp. I think that c-sharp is an excellent language

It's very fun, very easy to use and the code completion is just very good

I had a great time learning in c-sharp

The only reason I might hesitate from that is that I think it's one of those

Languages are a little bit more specialized maybe towards say game programming unity development Microsoft technologies if you want to get into it

Go ahead

I think that any language is interesting to learn about but those are my top picks if I were starting all over

That's why I would go with that do it for me

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