What to learn?

[facePuncher7]

My gf is interested to take up programming.

I'm a programmer / engineer by trade and since learning a bit about it she's become really interested in learning something related.

She has a background as a technical specialist in medicine but decided to get out recently due to covid pressures.

Question is - what do you suppose would be a good route for someone to take getting into software Dev these days?

Python seems the easiest, but I fear it's going to be bloated with hacks in a year or so, and puts a cap on learning due to lack of requirement to understand patterns and low level operations.

JS, C#, Java!?

 

[syct23]

Depends,

If you are planning to stick with this gf then hook her up with something good that would benefit both of you.

If you two aren't in it for the long run, then fuck it...

 

[Fedorgasm]

Seems like you're the most qualified person to answer this question. I have nothing to bring to the table except prime J-Lo-witt

Look at how wide her hips are compared to her shoulders. Yummy!

 

[monkeyrhythm]

It depends, but with "Dev", "Ops" and a bunch of other abbreviations continuing to converge, I'd personally recommend starting with reading "How Linux Works" by Brian Ward and going from there.

 

[facePuncher7]

Seems like you're the most qualified person to answer this question. I have nothing to bring to the table except prime J-Lo-witt

Look at how wide her hips are compared to her shoulders. Yummy!

I have a fairly good idea due to my own experience, but also I've also been fairly separate from the industry, doing my own thing or working in non-software companies. I figured there's probably others with a better sense of where the industry is heading.

 

[facePuncher7]

It depends, but with "Dev", "Ops" and a bunch of other abbreviations continuing to converge, I'd personally recommend starting with reading "How Linux Works" by Brian Ward and going from there.

Definitely good advice, though maybe a bit too much of a deep dive for a noob do you think? Haven't read it myself but quite familiar with Linux.

 

[monkeyrhythm]

Definitely good advice, though maybe a bit too much of a deep dive for a noob do you think? Haven't read it myself but quite familiar with Linux.

It's difficult with noobs as you want to make sure they keep interested (and on that basis I did consider suggesting Python first, your hack comments duly noted); however, I'm a big believer in creating a solid foundation (of knowledge) and building from there - and I figure nowadays Linux is probably the best foundation to build from.
The book I mentioned is really well structured, it starts from the basics i.e.
What's a filesystem?
What's a hard drive, memory etc.?
What's a GUI?
What's a text editor?

And gradually goes on to deeper stuff.

Even if your girlfriend just reads the first few chapters and then learns some Python or something else I think it would be a good place to start.
As for languages, it depends what direction you think may appeal to her (always a bit chicken and egg). I'm an infrastructure guy primarily so would lean towards languages like Python (or even Rust, Go etc.) But as I say, it very much depends...

 

[elwani]

LOL x86 assembly or GTFO

But more seriously it should depend on what she wants to program, unless she just wants to do it to appreciate logical thinking?

 

[FyrFytr998]

Seems like you're the most qualified person to answer this question. I have nothing to bring to the table except prime J-Lo-witt

Look at how wide her hips are compared to her shoulders. Yummy!

Post of the thread IMO.