Fastest Programming Language to Learn?

Re:Fastest Programming Language to Learn? by WheelsAtLarge on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:02PM (#29689282)

I would learn "C". The language is small in terms of key words. It has all the tools you will need to whiteboard a solution. You can't be an expert in a month but you can get a handle on the basics relatively fast.

Stay with the basics and don't make the mistake of trying to learn everything. You can't and you won't in a month.

If you aren't given a specific language, I would pseudocode the solution. Once you get a handle on pseudocode writing you can use it for all your whiteboard tests.

https://towardsdatascience.com/pseudocode-101-an-introductio...

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Re:Fastest Programming Language to Learn? by shric on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:43PM (#29689474)

I love C, but strongly disagree with the "learn C" part. It's not a suitable language for interviews even if you're an expert. C is by far my strongest language but I wouldn't dream of using it in any generic FAANG like interview, I'd chose something like Python which has plenty of built in things like appendable lists, dictionaries, garbage collection, et cetera.

Agree with the psuedocode part though.

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