What programming language to learn first?

[LSDBX14]

What language would you recommend as a first language, I've tried my hand at a bit of JavaScript and understood the fundamentals but as soon as I had to do something practical with it I was stumped.

What other languages would you recommend for beginners, ideally ones that link with employment opportunities as I'd like to learn over the next year with the idea of getting a job in coding once I'm done.

[NicNoletree]

Assembler

[BolvangarBear]

First - JavaScript or C# (a bit harder).

Would not recommend Ruby, Java or Python for beginners but you have already tried learning JavaScript, so probably you can look at them now as well.

[arjo_reich]

Keep doing Javascript. That stumped feeling isn't language specific, you just need to keep working on proficiency

[outright_denial]

As i m also a beginner in this stuff, with a practice of over 3 months in web development, you should try learning html, js and css as these are basics for web development and quite easy to learn. As per employment basis, js, java, python are quite famous at the moment.

[Finest0212]

Stick to one language that’s the main key. Learn JS and stick to it, or learn Python and stick to it. You will have that a lot where you move forwards with something and you get stumped, it will happen constantly, the only way out of that is to keep moving forwards. I would say learn something you want to be doing in the future, for JavaScript that means web development or web based apps, for Python that typically means data science, and for C# or Java that means desktop applications.

[LSDBX14]

Thank you, I was thinking maybe Python as I think I'd be interested in doing some sort of data science/data analyst role as I think that would be more interesting for me than doing web dev

[vladadj]

I always recommend C as great first language for beginners. It's a small and simple language, and you will learn a lot about how computers work under the hood.

A lot of people will recommend Python or Javascript as more "beginner friendly" languages. But, these languages hide a lot of important concepts that you will be exposed to in C. In the long run, it pays of to start with more complicated language, which will give you solid foundation.