Coding, the next ‘must learn’ language?
By Jon
I was watching a BBC video about why lots of people are learning basic computer coding, which made me think of how I had learnt extremely basic html and a bit of objective-c. Is it really necessary for me to know more coding languages since I’m on the computer so often? Most people don’t think of languages like JavaScript of C++ as real languages, but with the rise of computers they could become more important than ever.
For a long time I’ve been thinking I would I ever need to know computer a language. So now I might have to reconsider that. However, I had learned html last year in a computer class at school, not by choice, but it actually proved helpful once when my mom needed help with posting one of her articles. I wrote a simple line to make a couple of words bold. I don’t really know any more than changing fonts, colors, inserting photos and adding hyperlinks so I think that there might be a time when I would need to learn more for my well being in the computer world.
There are so many languages out there that it is pretty hard for me to decide which one is the most important and what I should learn. I have started learning a little objective-c which is a C based language for iOS application creation. I was expecting it to be somewhat like html, but it’s completely different. Maybe I should learn C, because a lot of languages are derived from it, but then maybe I should learn JavaScript. It’s quite overwhelming.
A cool resource to learn stuff like JavaScript is at khanacademy.org. There is an all-new area called computer science for you to learn and edit code in an interactive way. There are topics for both beginner and expert coders. I’ve been looking into their videos, which were quite interesting, and I actually learned a bit.
I think it’s necessary to know the extreme basics of some coding languages at least. In the future if people will use computers more and more often, then it would become increasingly important to know a little about what makes certain things on your computer work.
Learning basic html helped me a bit outside of school, so I think that learning coding and certain computer languages should be taught as a mandatory course in schools.
Do you know any coding languages? Leave your comment below.
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