How bad is it to learn Python before C? I started to learn C and it's going well, but I'm thinking of learning Python first as it's more "marketable".
How bad is it to learn Python before C? I started to learn C and it's going well...
Thomas Reed
Ryan Brooks
For what reason are you even learning a programming language to begin with?
Do you realize despite being general purpose languages, they have different applications?
Isaac Rodriguez
I haven't made up my mind to be honest. I graduated with a math degree, but I'm looking to get into IT/Cybersecurity or Data Science.
Isaiah Long
Do you need to be selling your programming skills RIGHT THIS SECOND? If not, take your time with your studies so you can actually get to understand things better. Maybe read the source code to the Python interpreter so you can figure out how it works. Not because you need to know it for a job, but because it'll help you understand what you are doing, and why you are doing it when you need to perform optimizations. Or hell, just because it's fun.
Fuck, if you don't find programming FUN don't do it at all.
Matthew Lopez
If you're not just shitposting ask this in the daily programming thread.
>Cybersecurity
You should start by learning about DBs, cryptography, networks.
>Data Science
IF that's all you want to do, Python would actually be ok as your only known programming language.
Julian White
what a terrible image, why would you want to perform arithmetic? just
_ = a
a = b
b = _
Noah Powell
I don't know programming... so just so I understand, does b only get evaluated and saved to memory (or whatever) at the second line such that it wouldn't try to evaluate b = a - b as b = (a - b) - b?
Oliver Hernandez
int a = 5;
int b = 10;
a = a + b;
a = 5 + 10
a = 15
b = a - b;
b = 15 - 10
b = 5
a = a - b;
a = 15 - 5
a = 10
Carter Williams
It's ok. I've learned python first and it helped me a lot.
Matthew Nguyen
Let's say a1 = a+b. Then b1 = a1-b = a+b-b = a.
There you've got a where b is located. Finally, a2 = a1-b1 = a+b-a = b.
But in C, since arithmetics is tricky due to overflow, you'd rather use XOR instead, similarily:
a ^= b; b ^= a; a ^= b;