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- 1. How to Choosea Programming Language September 2017 WIFI: The Department Guest 1
- 2. Let's learn abouteach other! What's your name? What's your coding experience? What brought you here today? 2
- 3. Panelists Sean Jun Thinkful Graduate SoftwareDeveloper, Intel Jessica Cottrell Thinkful Student Flex Bootcamp Mitch Cravens Thinkful Mentor Front-end Engineer Shannon Gallagher Thinkful Community Manager Moderator 3
- 4. Let's learn abouteach other! What's your name? What's your coding experience? What brought you here today? 4
- 5. What is programming? Programmingis: problem-solvingproblem-solving writing instructions for a computer to execute 5
- 6. Few things tokeep in mind... Objective Popularity Job prospects Longevity 6
- 7. Different types oflanguages Front-end Back-end Full-stack Data & Analytics 7
- 8. Front-end, Back-end, andFull-stack Client (sends requests) Front-end Developer Manages what user sees Server (sends response) Back-end Developer Manages what app does 8
- 9. Data/Analytics Data & Databases, DatabaseEngineers, Data Scientists, Data Analysts 9
- 10. Benefits of Popularity& Accessibility Has large community of developers, libraries and frameworks => easier to learn & debug Syntax is less complicated and more intuitive for first-time developers Helps you focus on learning how to code rather than get distracted by the nuances of the language 10
- 11. Our recommendations Front-end: JavaScript Back-end:JavaScript/Python Full-stack: JavaScript Analytics: Python bit.ly/build-own-website 11
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- 13. JavaScript history Written byBrendan Eich in 1995 for Netscape Initial version written in 10 days Completely unrelated to Java, but maybe named after it to draft off its popularity Over 10 years, became default programming language for browsers Continues to evolve under guidance of ECMA International, with input from top tech companies 13
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- 15. Why JavaScript? 94% ofall websites in the world use Javascript. Javascript has a monopoly on front-end web development. All browsers already have Javascript interpreters included. Node.js allows Javascript to be written on the back-end as well. Knowing Javascript means you can create full- stack web applications in minutes. 15
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- 17. Python history First releasein 1991 Designed to be simpler and more readable Named after “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” 17
- 18. Python today Since 2003,consistently ranked in top 10 most popular languages. As of 2017, was fifth most popular language, currently #3 on Github Has become standard language in computer science curriculums (displacing Java) 18
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- 20. Python analytics Data scientistsare increasingly using Python over R Python has excellent modules for “big data” analysis and machine learning (NumPy, Pandas, sklearn) 20
- 21. JavaScript basics: variables varcars = 20 Initialize variable Name of variable Value of variable 21
- 22. Python basics: variables cars= 20 Name of variable Value of variable 22
- 23. JavaScript basics: functions functiongreet() { return "Hello world!"; } Initialize function Name of function What the function does 23
- 24. Python basics: functions defprintme(): print "Hello world!" return Initialize function Name of function What the function does 24
- 25. That's it! Understanding variablesand functions means you already understand the fundamentals of a programming language! 25
- 26. Pick one thingand master it. Don’t jump around. It will be surprisingly easy to pick up more languages once you understand the fundamentals. 26
- 27. How can Ilearn? Build stuff + Google Free online resources (e.g. CodeAcademy) Flexible coding bootcamps (e.g Thinkful) Full-time coding bootcamps (e.g. Thinkful) Full degree programs (Georgia Tech) 27
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