Should I Learn Java or Python?
Why take the long path if we can take a shortcut?
Many abandon the software engineering field because they find programming too difficult. The choice of the first programming language can determine whether you like the profession or not. “Should I learn Java or Python?” is a very good question.
My first programming experience
I started programming at a young age. That was in the late 90s. At that time, I was an electrician’s apprentice in an elevator factory. Even though I didn’t understand a line of code, I got amazed when an electrical engineer programmed the elevator using C language.
For me, programming was something esoteric. In my country, when we see a text we can’t understand we say “it looks like Greek”. It can be due to the distance between the Portuguese and Greek languages. I never confirmed the true reason. But yes, that seemed “Greek”! The day I discovered what we can do with a programming language got deeply recorded in my memory.
Programming in the college — Pascal, Java, and C
Some years later, my next experience with programming was using Pascal, already at the college. At that time, all colleges taught programming using pseudo-language and Pascal. Pascal was a…
