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[Nerfix]

Mmmm, interesting, very interesting. Is Python hard to learn?

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
Mmmm, interesting, very interesting. Is Python hard to learn?

You should be asking whether or not it would be worth it to learn Python. To answer that, the ones in the know would need to know what you'd use it for.

[Nerfix]

Endoperez said:You should be asking whether or not it would be worth it to learn Python. To answer that, the ones in the know would need to know what you'd use it for.

But Python leads to Ruby and Ruby and Java (Java I can handle somewhat) lead to Groovy and Groovy...Groovy is the future! And will lead to something else in future.

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
But Python leads to Ruby and Ruby and Java (Java I can handle somewhat) lead to Groovy and Groovy...Groovy is the future! And will lead to something else in future.

Java is in the past. My personal work with Java, that is.

I haven't touched my map randomizer for a year or so. It was supposed to randomize poptypes/defenders/sites etc in totally new ways. A random .map generator instead of a random map graphics generator. It's written in Java, but probably only works in Windows.

[Gandalf Parker]

Python is one of the more "english" of programming languages. So I would rank it as one of the easiest to learn. But its also very full featured.

Of couse just about any language could have done this. If you want to compare programming languages here is a really fun site to look at. I love looking at this site.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
It has 1019 different programming versions of simple programs to work thru the 99 bottles song.

Gandalf Parker

[WraithLord]

Gandalf Parker said:
Python is one of the more "english" of programming languages. So I would rank it as one of the easiest to learn. But its also very full featured.

Of couse just about any language could have done this. If you want to compare programming languages here is a really fun site to look at. I love looking at this site.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
It has 1019 different programming versions of simple programs to work thru the 99 bottles song.

Gandalf Parker

Wow, this site is spectacular. I think I'll need to spend some time there, to get all the strange languages.

[WraithLord]

I have worked with C, CPP, Perl and Java (for RT, not J2EE).
Python, I've heard a lot about and decided to check it recently. I think its a superb language, elegant and consice and with a giant code base on the web.

So Nerfix, It all boils down to what you need done. C is best for performance, Java for web, Perl for information mining and Python for prototypes I use them all depends on what I need done, Oh and don't forgot to use VIM as your text editor

[Nerfix]

I think I should learn Java properly first. We had a longish course about it in the BC but we barely reached the objects. I studied it a bit in home but then schools started and work piled up on me. D: I did manage to program some sort of store software using objects & all with it though...

We'll have a course about PHP though and it's supposedly a lot like Java.

But studying a smitter of some easy to learn language that's still useful would be helpful in the future. i'm bizarrely interested in coding though I have recently heavily shifted toward HTML, CSS & all. Learning Javascript would propably be the next logical step.

Ahhhhh, so many choices....

[Gandalf Parker]

It depends.
JavaScript is good if you are interested in doing more with what the user sees on their screen.
PHP is good if you want to do more with what goes on at the server end for providing services.

On a Dom3 website JavaScript would be good for making a god-creation tool people could play with.
PHP would be good for making a web-based game managment system

IMHO