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Published October 17, 2017

Pieter Lamers says:

October 17, 2017 at 5:51 pm

Partially related: I just had a discussion with a colleague of mine who wants to work on his fundamental programming skills. What language would you recommend? He was thinking about doing a Python course. My – sort of – objections were that we need more competence in XPath, Xquery, and Xslt on the one hand, and javascript/node on the other, and then a bit of sql and css. There is currently no Python in the code stack. Any suggestions?

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John Hardy says:

October 17, 2017 at 8:07 pm

I’m a little biased here but I don’t think it’s be out of line to suggest he learned JavaScript although Python is certainly a fine language with plenty of library support. All those XML related things can be done in any language.

My main suggestion would be that he works with modern JavaScript ie. ES2015 and more recent. That will require a build system if he wants to use it in the browser and still support older ones. You get that for free if you develop with React but there are so many good things in the modern language that I really strongly suggest starting there.

That said it he really wants to learn Python, he should.

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