The Incredible Growth of Python

Re:The Incredible Growth of Python by twobyfour on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:47PM (#15187002)

The chart there really emphasizes to what degree Java, C++, and to a lesser degree Javascript are used as teaching languages. There's a clear cyclical pattern in their question frequency that presumably corresponds to academic semesters.

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Re:The Incredible Growth of Python by stupidcar on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:03PM (#15187122)

Hmm. Interesting that JS's cycle is the inverse of Java's. People learning Java during term-time, then JS during their holidays?

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Re:The Incredible Growth of Python by pen2l on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:06PM (#15187137)

In their holidays, people make websites ("The next facebook!"), at term-time they make sodoku solving applications in Java for programming class.

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Re:The Incredible Growth of Python by falmak on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:49AM (#15189616)

Is "the next Facebook" really what today's students dream of building? It just seems a bit... dull. When I was a student we all wanted to create "the next <popular AAA game>".

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Re:The Incredible Growth of Python by goatlover on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:59AM (#15189889)

The next VR Snapchat?

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Re:The Incredible Growth of Python by sotojuan on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:39PM (#15188993)

This was the case in college. We had C++ classes but people learned Python and JS during breaks for internships because the are very little C++ jobs for college students.

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