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Dathascome
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Which programming language to learn?
Hi there,
I've decided to start teaching myself a programming language and it was recommended to me by two people both in the field I'm getting into (astrophysics) to learn either C or Fortran but preferably C. I was told C rather than C++ because C++ is object oriented and I don't need to worry about that for what I'll need to be doing.
I was also talking to a fellow who does computer science and he told me that C is good and all but I shouldn't be wasting my time with learning that now and i should be learning perl and/or python because they're more efficient in some manners.
If anyone doing physics or astronomy has any advice on this matter it would be greatly appreciated.
Hi there,
I've decided to start teaching myself a programming language and it was recommended to me by two people both in the field I'm getting into (astrophysics) to learn either C or Fortran but preferably C. I was told C rather than C++ because C++ is object oriented and I don't need to worry about that for what I'll need to be doing.
I was also talking to a fellow who does computer science and he told me that C is good and all but I shouldn't be wasting my time with learning that now and i should be learning perl and/or python because they're more efficient in some manners.
If anyone doing physics or astronomy has any advice on this matter it would be greatly appreciated.