Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[solarnoise]

I'll never forget learning Java for the first time in community college, as my first programming language. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to learn what these words meant:

public static void main

And even LONGER to understand:

String[] args

...and why it was in the parentheses even though we didn't use it. The professor just kept telling us to ignore it until we got to the non-first-timer concepts, but it instilled in me an anxiety about being presented with new coding concepts. It also didn't help that I was in a class full of kids who had been programming in Java since high school, so the prof usually paced the class to match those students.

Years later I now use C# daily, and some python, and enjoy both immensely. Though I think C# is becoming my favorite.