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I would not exactly describe it as beginner friendly

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May 24, 2022

Why you should choose Python as a beginner? - Easy to Learn and use - Beginner friendly. - Supportive & active community Worldwide. - Among the top popular programming language in 2022 - it will land you jobs...it's in high demand. - it has lots of libraries & framework.

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4:05 AM · May 25, 2022

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That's fascinating! I regularly teach Python to STEM folks who haven't coded before. What did you find beginner *unfriendly*?

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Learning Python has been really hard so far. Here's a thread of me breaking down my process of learning it from 100% scratch so far (day 2)

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Compared to what?

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Imo it is compared most other languages. At school they taught the freshmen Haskell and it makes python feel breezy.

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It looks beginner friendly if you already know how to program. I tend to point rather exaggeratedly at JavaScript because it traces its lineage to ALGOL-60, just like C and C++ and C# and Java and PHP and the list goes on. Is it easy? No. But it makes a lot of other stuff easy.

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yeah, R is beginner friendly… html is beginner friendly… even though Python infinitely better Starting python is/was a pain in the ass. also lost ides suck

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It's relatively beginner friendly lmao

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May 25, 2022

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What language is more beginner friendly than python?

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The other ones are even worse

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The truth is that it's hard to make a language that's truly "friendly for beginners" without it being a toy. Although I will say - getting a basic Python setup nowadays is still somehow harder than setting up a C++ toolchain for Windows in the early 2000s.