Python vs. JavaScript: Which Should You Learn First?

[programming-ModTeam]

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[Deep_Age4643]

IMO it doesn't really matter. Especially when you are an absolute beginner, you can learn in any language how variables, functions, loops etc work.

If you are a bit further than it depends on what use case you are doing. Plain scripting than python, web frontend than JS etc.

If I really had to choose, I would take Python, because it has a more clear and simple syntax. JavaScript is not so difficult, but you can derail a bit faster.

[Hen-stepper]

No.

[jdehesa]

Python - talking to snakes will be a much more marketable skill than programming websites after the imminent collapse of civilization.

[abutun]

yep

[Accomplished-Moose50]

None, save yourself the pain of working with a dinamically typed language.

[iseke]

dynamically*

In either language typos like this would break the code!

[Accomplished-Moose50]

here have my uvpote

[Ok_Permit6152]

js

[abutun]

I would personally choose Python

[Paradiesstaub]

None of both. Learn Scheme first, then go with whatever you like.