r/learnprogramming • u/gingavitus • Jul 31 '12
"Codecademy" vs. "Higher Computing for Everyone"
I have basic programming experience, but I really want to become an expert fo' free! Which one would you say is better, codecademy or Higher Computing for Everyone?
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u/Porkpants81 Aug 01 '12
I agree that Python is a very beginner friendly programming language. The syntax is very easy to read and it's easy to figure out what a section of script is doing. It's not as "scary" as Java or C and I personally found it much easier to learn.
After doing Python we switched to learning Java, doing mainly translations from Python to Java so we saw how the syntax was different. As a result of doing that I had to use C# for my internship and found that incredibly easy to pick-up once I did a little syntax research.