Hey, Programming Twitter! I'm going to be speaking to impressionable youth in a couple of days They are in their early years of learning. In the 20ish age range. What is your one solid advice? Language Agnostic. RT's are loved (I'm gonna quote you in the slides so be nice :)
For beginners, I’m tempted to disagree. You need to start with a popular language / framework / tech stack to land your first gig. Branching out and cross-applying your knowledge becomes much easier with experience. However, I agree that the best way to start is to “just do it”.
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Landing gig, yes. Learning, not necessarily. So I guess depends on whether they want to learn, or land a job asap. e.g. in something like web frontend, if they start to learn something now, then one year later it might be obsolete! :P
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twitter brevity & all... I've seen too many folks get so paralyzed at "is this language really the best?" (framework, API, tool, engine, ...) that they never really start *doing* anything
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