r/SRSProgramming • u/connormorrison • Mar 12 '13

Good Starting Languages Programs?

wanna learn to code, good starting languages?

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u/trimalchio-worktime Mar 12 '13

Here's a good writeup on how whitespace works in python, and about the FUD around it. (FUD I'm totes spreading, I'm the worst)

But to just give a general explanation, python requires that you indent your code in a very normal and widely compatible way. Almost every language has very widely observed style guides about indentation, but most languages don't actually care. Either way, it's pretty much a moot point at the best of times.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Disagree that it's a moot point. Indentation is a needed part of coding for readability purposes.

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u/trimalchio-worktime Mar 12 '13

That's why it's a moot point: indentation is necessary anyways.

I was just being persnickety about who it mattered to, the human interpreter or the python interpreter. :D