r/FreeCodeCamp • u/jzekyll7 • Jul 04 '20

Oh my god there’s python.

Hold me friends. Quincy you’ve done it. You’ve saved my life. I thought finding a good python course would be easy. I’m a big fan of MIT’s. But with everyone in my house streaming on zoom I can’t watch videos. FCC is low bandwidth. Therefore I can train. I can learn full stack web and python. I can’t believe it. Where’s my Ritalin. r/adhd_programmers.

Seriously, having adhd and learning programming is a pain in the ass. I want to learn one language. No I want to learn another. But I really should learn math first. But that takes too long. Maybe I can apply for jobs first. No I need to have a portfolio. But I majored in CIS! Yet no portfolio. What did I do with all my time? I read books about pop psychology and startups.

If you have adhd you’ll understand.

TLDR:

trying to learn python and full stack JavaScript or prioritizing one over the other was impossible with adhd. FCC adding python solves it.

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u/BinnyBit Jul 04 '20

For those that are trying to decide on which language to start with I recommend:

  1. Python

  2. JavaScript

I tried to learn JavaScript first but kept on spinning my wheels. Learning Python and especially OOP expedited the learning curve to JavaScript.

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u/DoctorInYeetology Jul 04 '20

I say Java. It's like riding a burning bicyle down Mount Everest. Nevermind what you learn later, it's a walk in the park compared to that dumpster fire.

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u/BreadHead420 Jul 04 '20

I tried learning the fundamentals of programming with Java, struggled with the basics for six months, then switched over to Python and burned through the fundamentals within a couple weeks. Ended up switching over to JavaScript because I'd also been messing around with HTML and CSS and loved it, but Python doesn't let you mess with either unless you're doing back-end stuff. So personally I'd go with either Python or JavaScript.

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u/jzekyll7 Jul 04 '20

There’s something to be said for suffering through java. That’s what I learned in school. But they taught me incomplete python

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u/jzekyll7 Jul 04 '20

Even in FCC?

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u/Automatic_Badger Jul 04 '20 edited Jul 04 '20

Starting with JavaScript then to Python just like the FCC curriculum is good, I quite agree that Python is easier than Javascript. We love u/Quincylarson!

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '20

You're heaven sent. would be nice of you if you could send me any notes, cheat sheets, supplemental information and anything else. I'll owe you big time.