softban

7y

!advice

So I've been self teaching myself Python, which I've loved learning. However I hit a wall. I'm terrible with large project ideas, which has brought everything to a halt.

Being that I loved learning python, I'm thinking of picking up a second language to fill the void & expand my knowledge. I've dabbled a little bit in Java & Haskell. Go looks pretty interesting.

In your opinion what would be a good complementary language to Python?

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chadd17

4643

7y

I don't know about Haskell. Someone else handle that.
Java is a good pick because it is very strict and verbose. It will give you some grounding in what Python handles for you - stuff like type declaration, non-list arrays, and so on.
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devrocket

1452

7y

Depends on what career path you want to take.

Also, ! Is a symbol for "not". So when people say !rant it just means that it's not a rant.
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ctwx

361

7y

Java is very universal, widely used and you can apply many things you know from Python. So me advice would be Java.
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jeeper

5966

7y

Throw a wild card and say learn a nodejs stack. Spin up a website and such. Project with an objective that is achievable and extensible
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shdw

950

7y

Another take on the big projects could be Django for Python?
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querellaMMXII

1308

7y

https://www.hackerrank.com

Might be of interest to you.
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softban

930

7y

Thanks for all your comments! (Sorry it took awhile, work got crazy.)

@devrocket Career path doesn't really factor in. Programming to me has always been about fun & python is a very fun language to write.

@jeeper with nodejs being javascript based, would it be something I can jump right into, or will I need to learn javascript first?

@querellaMMXII Just found this yesterday & I have been having a blast.
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ctwx

361

7y

@softban for node you'll need JavaScript. Node itself is a interpretor, kind of. So knowing JS is probably preferred.

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