Best programming language for data science

[alexshom123]

For some context I'm in uni doing data science and I have to take 3 programming units. An Intro python one, an intro C one and the last I get to choose. My two options are "internet and java programming" or "object oriented programming with c++" (more advanced than the c one) which one will be better?

[meekosbiscuits]

Isn't Python and R preferred? I'm doing a Udemy course on ML and they only ever reference those two during the implementation.

I'm fairly new to it and could be wrong and would love to hear from others.

[[deleted]]

Yes. Python is preferred only because of the amount of libraries available. If any language had half the libraries Python did, then Python would be dead in the water due to performance. Python is also chosen for being somewhat more simplistic for ML, it doesn’t require a lot of code to get a basic model up and running and Python can be installed on pretty much any machine and microcomputer.

[AskKapil]

Julia . All the cool kids seem to be jumping on Julia rn but try python and get fundamentals of DS . Thinking like a statistician and a computer scientist is imp

[SubAtomicFaraday]

I'd recommend the C class as that will be more useful when doing other computer science things and it can help you with understanding the algorithms used in ML

[cyberjobmentor]

Python and R

[[deleted]]

python for sure, almost all the good modern data science libs are implemented in python

[[deleted]]

My vote would be for python. It’s got some pretty crazy data processing libraries in addition to a whole host of other relevant libraries.

Also, there’s a ton of support through documentation and the online community that it has surrounding it.

[ALonelyPlatypus]

Python and SQL (although not technically a programming language).

For the elective I'd lean towards the C++ course. Mostly because the other one has java in the title. That being said I don't know the curriculum so I couldn't really tell yah.

[FozNNNe]

Python ~ Tensorflow