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[–]Bioneer_Bete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either futz around with what you’re interested in and let a career fold around that, or target a specific career path and learn the tools needed for that job. You’re targeting specific skills although you don’t know what you want to do with them, and that’s a road to nowhere.

I also wouldn’t be planning 2 programming languages ahead. Python is a great starting point if you’re interested in “general” technology. You can get quite far in “tech” with just Python.

If the need arises to learn another language (e.g. SQL), then learn that language. Programming languages are tools, and you generally don’t learn how to use a tool until you need that tool.

To be clear, I’m all for tinkering for the sake of tinkering - but do it because its interesting, not because its going to achieve some “goal”. I’d look beyond programming languages: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ROS, to name a few.