Should I take up C++ ?

Question

I've been slowly learning Bash, Perl and Python. What is C++ good for ? Why would you recommend it over any of these languages ? Also, have you heard about R and what do you think of it ? (Please elaborate)

Answer 1

What are you learning some languages for? It will definitely help in answering your question. You can pretty much do anything with C++. Memory, resource and hardware intensive applications may need to be written in C and/or C++ -which should give you an idea what C and Cpp are just by reading that. Like Unity3D. Although, I think I've answered this question three times already.

C++ is a good language to start with as well because of how clear-cut your code is. Data type declaration, and such. Also many languages are derived from C like Python I think -making it easy for me and everyone else to jump to Java or C#. OOP and structured.

Yeah, R, rising star of data science and statistics. It is worth learning. We used it for my statistics class and is said to be looked for in Data Analyst jobs or something.

Take a language and master it by making stuffs with the language. If you're learning python, there's sooo many things you can do with python.

Answer 2

Thanks for your input. I just went on in and have begun the C++ course. Btw, I'm a former linguistics student currently getting into NLP. Hence the R question, because everybody keeps talking about it in this field.