Having messed around with c# c++ and java just briefly i have read that python is a great language to learn as a first to pick up. Having migrated my netbook and desktop to ubuntu full time to concentrate all my efforts on learning my 1st programming language do you feel this is a good language to start please express your experiences with python.
so i want to learn python
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I have no experience with python at the moment, just reading up on it and planning on doing some simple coding with it over summer, but everyone I know who has used has been very surprised at how easy it is to do quite large tasks with and also make GUI so on that alone I think its a great language to start with, and I think it will always help to gain confidence to then try out other languages like java and C
I think Python as a language is a good place to start. I've picked up a bit, and it's a really beautiful language. The thing that stopped me taking it further was the release of Python 3 and the subsequent lack of compatibility of the framework I was learning at the time (django).
I've not done too much with it - I use it for small scripting tasks on my computer, and I wrote a Terminal-based twitter client just for giggles and because I like playing with web-based APIs.
I found a good way to familiarise myself with the syntax (and mathematical functions!) of any language really, is Project Euler. Obviously won't give you a very deep understanding of the language, but it's a nice ease-in to what you can do with different syntactic elements.
I've not done too much with it - I use it for small scripting tasks on my computer, and I wrote a Terminal-based twitter client just for giggles and because I like playing with web-based APIs.
I found a good way to familiarise myself with the syntax (and mathematical functions!) of any language really, is Project Euler. Obviously won't give you a very deep understanding of the language, but it's a nice ease-in to what you can do with different syntactic elements.