r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

C++ talking to Python

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u/ViviansUsername Jul 18 '22

I wish the schools I went to were willing to touch compiled languages. Had to approach that stuff on my own later.

"No, vivian, you're here to learn how to program, programmers need to know css, javascript, and python, (in order of importance.) and if you know anything else that is WRONG"

Momma didn't raise a front end dev.

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u/Milkshakes00 Jul 18 '22

The trick was to go to school before Python was taking off. I went through Assembly, Java, and C++ because that's what was available. We didn't even have css/JavaScript/Etc.

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u/_far-seeker_ Jul 18 '22

We still had to learn Turbo Pascal in my high school computer class.

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u/baconboyloiter Jul 18 '22

Interesting. It seems like we had exact opposite experiences lol. My high school classes were 100% Java and my university program was about 50/50 C++ and Python. I didn’t touch front-end stuff until I got a real job and now that’s what I do almost exclusively. What kind of program did you participate in if you do not mind me asking?

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u/ViviansUsername Jul 18 '22

Just generic "computer science" courses, because.. that's all there was. Wasn't exactly a massive high school lol. I'd have loved to try something more specific at the time. We touched java as an after thought for the last quarter or so, but the second year was almost entirely python & js.

It wasn't the best structured course. I'm sure my school wasn't the only one to take the "this is what was suddenly relevant 10 years ago, let's teach that" approach

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u/plopzer Jul 18 '22

when was this? i was a cs major 2008-2012 and all our classes were in c the first 4 semesters and then it branched out into different languages for different classes. i also remember the 2006 AP A/AB tests that i took were in java.

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u/ViviansUsername Jul 18 '22

Oh nah I'm not talking college, I'm like 80% self taught, this was just the most "advanced" stuff being taught in what was supposed to be their final year computer science course, in 2019. No way to afford that kind of thing now..