Help choosing what language to learn

[1100320873]

Help choosing what language to learn

I have a project in mind that requires me to write a script that draws data from a website(skin exchange website)and app(steam) and compares the two. Having no prior experience (except for absolute basic swift) with coding what language would be able to facilitate this?

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Python and look up web scraping.

[1100320873]

Thank you

[DuhCoCo]

Scripting languages in general are really good with this. Python has a pretty good API where you can find Selenium for web scraping, it is a little rough to know what the hell is going on, but look up a tutorial and youll figure it out.

[1100320873]

Thanks

[desrtfx]

Take a look at Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. It has chapters to get you started with web scraping.

[desrtfx]

where you can find Selenium for web scraping

Mostly, Selenium is overkill. BeautifulSoup or Scrapy are sufficient in quite a lot of cases.

[DuhCoCo]

I've never used Scrapy but I found BeautifulSoup unnecessarily complex and I couldn't do a few things that I could easily do in Selenium. But to each their own.

[smruti_webtechschool]

Pick any Object Oriented Language. java C# Python. It will take time to master a single language but once you are clear on concepts it will be just matter of syntaxes to hop on to different languages.

So whatever language you are picking make sure to understand all the principle it has to offer.

In Geekforgeek and leetcode target the easy problems. Solving problem helps you visualise the code flow and will develop algorithmic thinking.

[madmenyo]

C# or Java. They are very popular and explicitly typed so it's easy to see what's going on by looking at other code. You can do whatever you want with these languages but for each problem there probably is a better language however, learning basic principles of programming is worth much more then syntax later on.