my reccomendation: Javascript Python PostgreSQL C?
Will take you very far. Python is amazing for learning concepts and universal skills if more limited in job market. If you know python you don’t need PHP. Learn the html and case you need to complete projects but don't waste too much time mastering front-end. Learn enough as you go to approach full-stack but focus on mastering back-end.that is the real value and skill. Javascript is becoming universal and if you had to learn other languages in the C-family you are making an easy jump. If you wanted to do devops C. If you are never going there then maybe skip this. Pick a database. It doesn’t matter much on paper which one usually because they are all mostly different ways to the same thing. I suggest Postgresql simply because it covers everything you need at this point and is open-source.
If you can get serious with just javascript, python and postgresql you can cover a lot of ground easily supplemented with html, css and other new languages as you go. I believe that trifecta is the best value for your time as a learner. If you don’t go datascience and machine learning python is still good for replacing php. A javascript master can easily learn Cish languages.
These three languages can do a lot and if competent with them, will make the rest easy jumps. Learn concepts with Python. Learn projects with javascript. Use Postgresql for both. Html and CSS as needed to get job done. Learn C for devops and understanding hardware level if that is your interest.
I would skip php, perl and java which is all stuff I originally learned on way back. Java is meh. Avoid it. You can learn it easily if you ever had to if you really know algs and data structures. PHP is kind of messy crap IMO even if a lot runs on it. Even if there are not a lot of datascience machine learning gigs for entry level, python will get you learning easily and can cover the php gap.
Thanks for the info, I'm just at the start of even deciding where to go, code or otherwise.
I would say this. If you are not sure about it. Maybe get a basic Linux cert for something very basic and entry level. It would be cheap and not take much time. If you find you don’t really like that, then anything computing may not be for you. If you do like it, then that is a real good start to a coding career and you can already be in the industry somewhere while you continue.
Javascript is a terrible language to learn first. Its variable typing will completely fuck you up when you try to apply your learned skills to another language.
Python or C (possibly via an Arduino) would be better. Sure, Python typing isn't great, but at least it doesn't guess what you're trying to do and change variable types on the fly.
Javascript is a little of a mind f when you go to learn it second from another language as well. If you don't learn to program it from it's "prototyping" perspective you'll "never" get it. You'll always be trying to make classes etc.
Not for nothing I started with html anr javascript first in the late 90s and early 2000s and had zero issue learning java or python a decade and two decades after. Shit everyone used to bitch about how complicated frames were (they weren’t, people are just stupid bitches). Knowing is half the battle. You can find a snag in any order of learning really. Its computers, not crayons.
I literally said learn from Python first. And that if you learn how to do anything in Python first then figure out how to do it in another language after it will be easier. Python really is the best first language. But not where the money and much work is. There are not many jobs for just Python and it doesn’t command much money on its own. Well paid Python developers are often full stack. And there often are no entry level jobs for it. It is a good supplement but anyone who has javascript down will never hurt for work or money, and won’t really need anything else. Javascript is huge and it would be silly to not learn javascript second. Or not know javascript and python for websites. Or to not know javascript at all. Variable typing is not a big deal if you learn python first. You won’t have to unlearn it when learning other language if you learn Python first. Those two will make most other languages very familiar and easy to pick up regardless because you will not have to unlearn variable typing of you didn’t start with it. I only make C optional because it won’t help you unless your interests and projects require it. I never learned it because I have never needed it.
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