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Discussion on: What are your struggles as a beginner dev?

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Ashley Tonkin

I think my biggest struggle as a beginner is knowing what i want to learn. I know most people have a good idea with that they want to build or what field they would like to get into.

I had no idea, I started learning HTML and CSS and i honestly regret not learning a language like C#, Python or Java first.

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Michel Renaud

Those are completely different beasts. HTML/CSS are basically presentation languages, markup stuff. C#, Python and Java are programming languages. Completely different skill sets for completely different tasks (even though some frameworks mix both).

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Cristina Ruth

Ah yeah - it's hard to know what to learn if you don't know what you'd ultimately like to do.

Why do you regret not learning those languages first? Do you find you're not liking HTML/CSS much?

At least you are starting somewhere and the more technologies you learn, the more you'll be able to grasp which ones you like or do not like, and that can help you find your "end goal" that'll dictate the rest of what you need to learn. 🙂

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Ashley Tonkin

I don't use HTML or CSS at all anymore haha
I've moved on to learning Java now plus i haven't used HTML or CSS in about 5 or more years.

Java is where I'd like to be at the moment I think.