Is Python a good starting language?

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"Learn to Code"

I keep hearing this so I've decided to act on it.

I'm trying to decide which language to learn though.

Please help me out.
 
Yes Yes Yes.. I've had no coding experience. I started with Python in mid Sep 2020 and now I can say that I'm a pretty good python developer.
[Edit] Let me know if you need the resources that I used (all of it). I'll upload it here on BHW for everyone :)
 
Python is a great language right now. It's fairly easy to learn, compared to other languages, and it's super versatile. You can build web apps, you can do data analysis, you can write scripts for sysadmin work, you can make games, etc. Python has a lot of libraries and it's been widely adopted. I personally wish Ruby was able to win the scripting language race but if you're starting from zero then Python will serve you well.
 
Yes, very simple to learn and very powerful at same time. Go for it without restrictions. You can learn from Youtube and searching on Google, finding answers on StackOverFlow. Good luck, guy.
 
It depends on what you want to achieve if you want to make real bots that can run thousands of threads with proxies and does some serious professional work python isn't good at all C#, Delphi or C++ if way to go ,if you want bots to automate small volume and quickly want to learn how to do that python is for you
 
Just download free python scripts on Github and learn from them is a sure way to speed up your learning process
 
Thanks for all the encouragement, guys. Much appreciated.

I plan to build bots and 'page data analyzers' - basically, scrapers with pattern detection
 
well if you really want to become a good programmer in most areas then I recommend this:
1. java for learning the programming concepts like OOP, type generic, inheritance, etc.
2. python for scripting fast small applications but can be used actually for anything
3. if you want to go more into performance critical or security exploitation of buffer overflows then -> C / C++
 
If bots/data analyzers is what you're thinking, then Python is definitely a great place to start learning to code. And there's so many free resources, and code examples, out there already for just about anything you're likely to want to do e.g. github is fantastic for that.
 
Yes Yes Yes.. I've had no coding experience. I started with Python in mid Sep 2020 and now I can say that I'm a pretty good python developer.
[Edit] Let me know if you need the resources that I used (all of it). I'll upload it here on BHW for everyone :)

I would second OP for the resources.
If you are willing to share please let me know.
 
Python's amazing. You can do really powerful things with it but it's very flexible and not as complex as other languages, which helps a lot when starting out.
 
Yes Yes Yes.. I've had no coding experience. I started with Python in mid Sep 2020 and now I can say that I'm a pretty good python developer.
[Edit] Let me know if you need the resources that I used (all of it). I'll upload it here on BHW for everyone :)
I for one would be interested in those resources
 
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