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ilikenwf | 2 years ago

I really wish schools would teach compiled languages before scripting languages.

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masklinn|2 years ago

Great news, python is compiled, you got your wish.

ilikenwf|2 years ago

Unless you use pyc it's only as compiled if you count php as compiled. Just in time bytecode compilation does not a compiled language make.

bdcravens|2 years ago

What's the current CS101 standard? I know when I was in college in the late 1990s, it went from Pascal to C++ to Java.

ilikenwf|2 years ago

In college, sure - they actually started us on C/C++ and then had us work in ASM for discrete math...

But in middle and high school now I believe they teach...whatever the teacher wants. So a lot of js, python, vb...