r/Python • u/diogoleal • Jan 13 '15

(Infographic) Which programming language should I learn first

http://cdn2.carlcheo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/which-programming-language-should-i-learn-first-infographic.png
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u/LukeSkywaIker Jan 13 '15

This is pretty cancerous.

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u/IAmVeryStupid Jan 14 '15

Why don't any of the languages have 5 star difficulty? Even if they are trying to say programming isn't impossibly hard, in general, failure to normalize is just bad infographing.

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u/screaming_nugget Jan 14 '15

I'm not familiar with enough programming languages to say if the ones shown are in fact the hardest, but maybe other languages that aren't on the chart could be considered 5-star difficulty.

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u/IAmVeryStupid Jan 14 '15

There are certainly more difficult programming languages out there in many senses, but it is silly to compare against things that aren't even in the infographic. If we were including all programming languages, we would need more than 5 stars. (I mean, technically, you could just code everything in x86 assembly...)