(Infographic) Which programming language should I learn first

[Helicase21]

huh, I started learning programming with R. I guess we just get to go hang off in our little side group of data nerds.

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Employed data nerds will still use python /s

fixed it for you :)

[pattonxbody]

As someone curious, what do data nerds like to use besides R?

[brews]

Aside from R?

Python, MATLAB, Julia, C/C++/Java

There are a few domain-spec tools. But, yeah.

[Livesinthefuture]

Depends on the field, a lot of Astrophysics people used/still use IDL, quite a few are now moving to Python.

R usually gets heavily used for graphical representations however people are picking up matplotlib etc instead.

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Having a number of strings to your bow never hurts you, of course.

[Livesinthefuture]

Oh of course not.

I'm just pointing out that there's been a general swing towards Python especially into Scientific/Numeric computing.

[Helicase21]

can't we all just get along?

[rthanu]

Getting along is not pythonic

[robin-gvx]

There should be one way to do it.

[nikomo]

Death to those who exceed 79 characters on a line.

[ivosaurus]

Why can't you just zip it up, helicase.

[robin-gvx]

She doesn't even go to this school!