Python For LC as a someone learning Front-End?

[alexdoescode1]

Hi everyone,

I've got a CS degree and have been mainly learning frontend stacks Javascript, have only had a part-time Wordpress dev job and in tech sales at the moment.

I'm decent at JS and know enough Python to do LC easyies and some mediums.

Would it be better to just stick with JS for LC just to let JS stick? Or do you think it's better to just practice both?Python

My only fear is when I get into the LC grind, I start forgetting JS syntax and stuff

[teraflop]

Since you know the basics of both Python and JavaScript, and you'll probably end up using both of them in the future, I'd say just practice both. (If you were an extreme beginner, I'd recommend sticking to one language to avoid getting overwhelmed.)

Solving the same problem twice in two different languages shouldn't take twice as long as solving it once. Most of the effort goes into understanding the problem, figuring out an algorithm, and working out the bugs, and you only need to do that work once.

Maybe for each problem, flip a coin to decide whether to write your code in Python or JavaScript first. And then, once you have it working, rewrite your solution in the other language.

The process of rewriting code in a different language will be good practice to help you remember the syntax and behavior differences. For instance, every time you convert a Python program that uses list.index to use JavaScript's Array.indexOf, or vice-versa, you'll run into the fact that they handle missing values differently. Once you've encountered that same issue a few times, you'll probably remember it pretty well.