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Discussion on: What programming language to learn first?

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Chrissy Hunt

I really enjoyed starting with Ruby/Rails. I know it's not as in demand on the job market as JavaScript, but it's really fun, and it's an easy stepping stone to carry you from thinking in a human language to thinking like a computer. (Plus the documentation is amazing, which makes it so much easier to learn without getting frustrated!) Also, now that I'm learning JavaScript, I'm finding that it's much easier to grasp the differences between functional and object-oriented programming when I can compare the two.