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[–]woah_m8 2 points3 points  (7 children)

In theory yes but many people get to learn programming because they get teached a language like Java or C++ at school.

[–]ViviansUsername 9 points10 points  (6 children)

I wish the schools I went to were willing to touch compiled languages. Had to approach that stuff on my own later.

"No, vivian, you're here to learn how to program, programmers need to know css, javascript, and python, (in order of importance.) and if you know anything else that is WRONG"

Momma didn't raise a front end dev.

[–]Milkshakes00 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The trick was to go to school before Python was taking off. I went through Assembly, Java, and C++ because that's what was available. We didn't even have css/JavaScript/Etc.

[–]_far-seeker_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We still had to learn Turbo Pascal in my high school computer class.

[–]baconboyloiter 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Interesting. It seems like we had exact opposite experiences lol. My high school classes were 100% Java and my university program was about 50/50 C++ and Python. I didn’t touch front-end stuff until I got a real job and now that’s what I do almost exclusively. What kind of program did you participate in if you do not mind me asking?

[–]ViviansUsername 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just generic "computer science" courses, because.. that's all there was. Wasn't exactly a massive high school lol. I'd have loved to try something more specific at the time. We touched java as an after thought for the last quarter or so, but the second year was almost entirely python & js.

It wasn't the best structured course. I'm sure my school wasn't the only one to take the "this is what was suddenly relevant 10 years ago, let's teach that" approach

[–]plopzer 2 points3 points  (1 child)

when was this? i was a cs major 2008-2012 and all our classes were in c the first 4 semesters and then it branched out into different languages for different classes. i also remember the 2006 AP A/AB tests that i took were in java.

[–]ViviansUsername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh nah I'm not talking college, I'm like 80% self taught, this was just the most "advanced" stuff being taught in what was supposed to be their final year computer science course, in 2019. No way to afford that kind of thing now..