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Which languages (programming, natural, etc.) can you use? I want to understand others' backgrounds when they took this course. |
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I believe once you know a static language (like C++ or Java) and a dynamic language (like JavaScript or Python), the language choice matters a lot less. They are all languages. :) I think I would agree with you, but I am not aiming for language choices; I am aiming for statistics. Every programmer should learn lisp. It will change they way you think about programming even if you will not use it much afterwards. You should do substantial programming Lisp and FORTH and then either Prolog or something like Haskell. Then, come back and write a report about how your former opinion was, um, misinformed. Alan J. Perlis once wrote that a language that doesn't change the way you think about programming isn't worth learning. However, there are lots more than just two ways of thinking about programming. @JonathanG all I said was:
Which part of it misinformed? I wasn't saying there are only two types. |
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Natural : Arabic and English Programming : Python, Octave, C++, Visual basic |
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Natural: Spanish, English, French, some fading Japanese I'll only list programming languages I've actually used for something in the last 6 months or so
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Natural: English, a little spanish Programming: 90% of my day to day coding is in java, but I routinely find myself having to do shell scripting, perl, actionscript/flex,javascript,etc. Coding is Objective-C is starting to be a more common task because of IPads. Basically whatever is needed to get the job done, like using Python in this class. |
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Natural: Normally English with a little French and a tiny smattering of German Programming: Perl, Python, PHP (ugh) on the dynamic side, although my Perl is really, really rusty. I'm mostly a Systems Administrator, and only an occasional programmer. I lack any kind of formal CS education. |
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Natural: czech, english, spanish, latin |
I'm very into statistics, would be nice if you revisit the topic in a while and post us a graph. ;)
I will make one around the end of this course because there are still people coming to enroll. I plan to record many polls about the students enrolled here because knowledge is power. Even if the teachers do it themselves, it is also helpful to have an independent, so it would help if everyone would spread the word in order to have more accurate data. Thank You!
people are still enrolling in the class?
I assume people are doing so; regardless, I am still giving time for more people to answer.
PHP is my native language, but I also speak XML, XHTML, CSS, English, and small amounts of JavaScript, SQL, and Python.