00In this video I'm going to help you decide which programming language
is the best to learn first hopefully by the end of this video
you will have a good idea of the languages you should be
taking a closer look at if you're looking for which language is the
easiest to learn first
I've made a separate video to answer that and I'll link to it
at the end the following diagram
that you can see here summarizes the main considerations
in choosing a programming language to learn so you can be driven
mainly by your interests for example if you're looking
to go into computer science then C is probably a very good language to learn the
web designer will find very little use for C
so first identify your interests and I'll show you which languages
meet those criteria you also have to look at your
requirements, what you actually hope to get out of programming
are you looking just to learn programming as a skill
or do you need a language that does something very specific
for example you want to do statistics and programming that you be looking at
something like R
which is a programming language specifically written for statistics
and if you are doing just statistics you can dodge a lot of programming
by just going straight to R you up to learn
I'll things objects in you don't have to learn learn things like objects which you would have to learn for Java
you also have to consider are you going to do in the future where such
your programming going to lead you, are you going to learn
just one language or are you going to be planning on learning
multiple languages if you're learning multiple languages
then you may as well start something like Python which is nice
easy to get a rough idea of
and then learn the other more difficult languages and then
that'll make your programming far easier
you also have to think about what
the requirements of your career that's going to
be a major driver of your choice and I'll give you a rough idea
of some career tracks and what programming languages
would be appropriate for them in later slides
probably the most useful consideration for most people
will be which is easiest which is the hardest now in
this video I'm just giving my opinion if it people will passionately
disagree with what I'm saying but the more opinions you get
the better and I would say for the easiest languages
in a rough order would be HTML is
a very easy language followed by PHP and Visual Basic
all these languages are reasonably easy to get your hands
around, HTML being the easiest
of them HTML is not particularly difficult
on the other hand you've got some very difficult languages
like Malbolge which is the less said about that the better
know and understand that, Pascal
the saying about Pascal is that it's
by geniuses for geniuses ajax is also a nightmare
but there's great demand for people are skilled in that
and C++ is not much fun to start with
the other thing that will drive
your choices you need to consider your ability and experience people who have
a lot of experience with problem solving for example
engineers or people have learnt
high-level maths could just start with C Java or even
Pascal because you've got the
sort of abbility to solve difficult problems and think
in a specific way that works very well for programming
however if you've got little experience
of solving tough problems on a regular basis
that you're going to have to start with an easier language
like Python or HTML just to get your mind around
the ay that you would set out code
that's the thing that people find so difficult when they start to
program is thinking in programming terms
another important consideration is the overlap in programming languages
this is very important when you're considering future
languages what you going to learn are you just doing one or many
if you are doing many then overlapping is going to be very important
now many languages are very interconnected
so learning one line which will make it easier learn another language
but in general learning one language makes every language easier
because you've went from not knowing how to program
to knowing programming and you can think
in that programming way this is a good example
the overlap in languages
you have the C programming language and the Objective-C language
everything in C is in objective-C
objective-c is like an extension of C
so if you can program in C learning objective-c iOS second language
is far easier than learning a new language
you also find if you can program in Python learning C is a lot easier
and if you learn see learning Python
is very easy have
look a bit further and see as lots of other languages that come
of see you see plus plus
but some people argue is replacing see or should replace
see you could see sharp objective-c
we've looked at previously
I also got MATLAB matlab takes a lot of its
what we call syntax the way you write code
comes trio see and you can in fact rights
code in Matlab so if you know a program in C
writing MATLAB scripts is not particularly difficult
the main thing you have to get when you're learning a programming language
is why we called the big ideas is just some fundamental parts a programming
that you just have to know so if you get a language
that includes most of or all of these things
nyse: gonna give you a very good start
to being a programmer I'll things if statements
lou switches repeating it's a code over and over and over again
usually changing a variable while you're running it
you go now actually declaring variables
as a data types is an integer as a good decibels on it
he learned about all these sort of things with various programming
languages you find all of these
I'll things in tyson see
Jaffer will cover these sort of things
so make sure that you cover as much of this slide
as you can when you're learning how to program for the first time
let's move on and look at the baskets they promised you
so if you're looking at maps engineering statistics
then these are the four languages I would suggest you focus your time
researching
have MATLAB is so that the standard language that engineers know
are is specifically written for statistical
computations so if you doing statistics
are so want to go with mathematical is a very good
I'll PC software and it's more intuitive
to mathematicians and Pascal
is also very good for scientific computations
but see just wanting to learn to code just for the sake of learning to code
I just interest maybe then these are the language use
I would suggest you could think they see Chapter Pascal
Payson ICN Javert the big
programming languages the most no programming languages
often the most used Pascale some people say is
I'll a great language to learn
because very compact and it makes you program in a very specific
way and you've also got python which is a great
language exit soul fast
and you its general purpose he can do pretty much everything
and it's not wildly difficult to get started with its one of the easier
languages in Scotland emphasis
on readability and simplicity
let's see your looking at doing web design
I'll if you don't know HTML you're not going to be a web designer
HTML is just so essential to the working at the Internet
and each year elysa reasonably simple language in fact it's a very
easy language to learn it's probably as I said before the easiest of the
languages
as a course on code can to me the sea
takes seven hours and by the end of that course you've got
a pretty good understanding of HTML Lincoln do most things
w3schools also has a very good HTML course that's how I originally learned
it
Javea you've probably seen all over the internet
PHP very good general purpose language
used extensively online avai 5 percent
server-side programming is done in PHP
SQL is very important particularly for big web sites
that's used for managing databases and ruby is fine the other
take online programming languages
if you just looking to make more money
or get a job because if your programming skills
that you'd really be looking at things like Jabba c plus plus
SQL these tend to be the most
useful or in demand languages have also suggested that you
consider rear or in advance language
this can be a great asset when you're applying for a job
because it allows a company to expand their capabilities without spending
money
sending someone off for months ago learn this programming language
so think the Ajax might be want to look at
if you're looking just to make specific things
these languages should be considering I'll
games design the big language for
gaming is C or C plus plus
that's pretty much a must know so if you're playing for a
I am job in this area or to do a course
learning C or C plus plus would-be great boost
PHP is used a lot for online games
and this one called Open GL which is also widely used
for web design have touched on all of this
you go HTML PHP SQL Jaber
as also ESP dotnet which is
first more server side stuff
I'll lock people up really intrested making aP's
the annoying thing ever ApS is Apple App sarin
one language an Android app sarin in another language
so you've pretty much got to make a decision or learn both
to view going for Apple programming you be on the iPhone operating system
ISL s Seacraft learn objective-c
and if you want to be in Javea systems
I V Android systems rather you gonna have to learn Java
and hopefully should be useful to look at
the whole world program this is the simplest
program usually in a language and it gives you a rough
feel upheld the language works
so let's look at a few of these languages and
there hello world codes your some examples a
made up in HTML everything's done with these
we called tax this is and open tag
then that slash HTML is a closing tag
so in between these two tags HTML
a header write this on the tap
CC when you're in internet browser
I'll that tab when you're running this page will see write this on
tap eighty star header
and header even header in here the title
and an end to the title and the body's just a little world
%um the body with the closing tag HTML
very top Javea is nastier
you've got a lot of other stuff going on there
you but these annoying semi colons at the end of lines
you have a semicolon single the program on run
I need these annoying brackets to cement see you Louis
annoying bracket cheaper to declare mean function you to include to standard
library
its just extra levels complexity
which you don't find Jeff a script by
you can't do that one-line and by SIMS simplest just as print
hello world at these quotation marks
they just been a string and a string is just letters
at characters
and if you're interested mile bogle the 1i said is the hardest language
apparently
this is what it's supposed to be the someone who just made this up
I don't think anyone would know so
if you have a compiler that does it maybe you can run that TV print
world i'd I let's take a closer look
somebody in most important languages that we've touched on
go tyson as I said emphasis on read a billion simplicity
its nice simple language to learn I think it's quite good start
programming that's the one I tell people if they see
now I want to start programming bushy Taylor and I see
by sons probably your best bet as star language
each email absolutely essential for web designers
and very very easy to learn I'd be surprised if you struggle
endlessly do simple things in HTML it's not difficult
C&C plus plus are
more difficult than I what's called low-level very
close the machine you can like manipulate
individual memory locations you can they put the number five
in a specific part of the computer and you can
tale ray a program says look in this memory location
and I'll find the number five it's that low-level
and C&C plus plus are very very heavily used languages
because you can do so much with them as a set with PHP
you could general-purpose language essential for
proper web development and if you're working with servers
PHP is very important add
looking at maths and science Matt labs really good bet
and if you already know see are you planning on learning see anyway
MATLAB source a good to look at
I just put they say here I'll the site thanks quite good idea
if you want to be a professional programmer then starting with C Java and
in some other languages
that makes you a program if you've covered see Chapter
and something else I would call you a program
i'd obviously gonna want to know where you can actually learnt
code there are so many excellent resources on the Internet you'll find
hugely useful
and X is great take free courses
and get a certificate to see that you've done them
it video lectures they're very very good
a big fan event next w3 schools where learn HTML
very good code cada me another great one I learned heights in there
you learn by doing he'd SAT can Academy
just YouTube you can watch people write code
I explain exactly how the code works its very useful
and got MIT OpenCourseWare as
a very popular lecture series gold introduction
to you computer science and programming
is a very very good course I'll give you a great grounding
in just how programming works
and the really the best way to learn programming is
to be doing it at on the great things play state w3schools
click Add to me you're actually learning the code
by writing the code you gain a little bit fury and getting a task to do
you're writing a bit of code using the few you've just learnt
and as never be easier to learn how to code
out trying to learn to code thirty years ago
shall leave you with few important points to take note of
firstly you can usually rate the same program
in other languages for example you could write code to do
exigency or in place in and you would get the same result
you can often do the same thing in a different language but just in a
different way
also it's worth considering learning a
high-level language and a level language to cap covering a very wide
base your programming for example learning C
and then going on to learn MATLAB you find we use a high-level language you
can do things a lot quicker
and more efficiently but when you need exact control over how some things
working
low-level language is very useful and finally I would suggest that you don't
take my word for it
before you go on choose which programming language you going to learn
first
that you consult lot resources is a very important decision you want to make it
correctly
this is based on my experience and my opinions and has a lot of people
on the internet who passionately disagree with wife said
and you should take Noah them envied their ideas
and after doing that do you have a good idea
which programming language is the one that you should go away
and spend a lot of your time learning
so good luck with your programming
and thank you for watching
