Easier vs harder programming languages

Question

Hi there, let's discuss diffuculty of languages: which ones are the easiest to learn+master within months, what will also lead to get a decent job in IT? Website stuff like PHP, CSS, HTML? Any more sets of these?

And then, which are these taking years to master? I presume it's all the Cs, Python, Java and so on? Is there any sense of studying them on the lowest level, like basic, or only fully?

I ask these questions because I'd like to be an QA Engineer one day (already have manual exp), so I'm wondering what level of coding magic should I gather. I'm into programming recently, but actually OOP and functions cause some problems (maths never was my thing), that's why I think that becoming a C++ wizard would be kinda hard to come true. But, first of all, I am into IT stuff, so I also can do "low level" stuff maybe like websites or something like that. I'm finishing Python course here, but still could you share any ideas which languages should I learn next?

Answer 1

It's unlikely that learning coding in a few months, would get anyone good enough, for them to get a good job in IT, unless they already had strong skills already, in key areas, like maths, academic research etc. More like a conversion course, fast track route.

I'd always encourage people to focus on their strengths. Computing is a team effort.

We need:

Good communicators (training, user requirements capture, sales, marketing, user documentation creators)

Good designers (electronic / software design, but also product design including user interface design)

Testing, cybersecurity, networking, AI etc.

If you're struggling with coding, then that's normal by the way! Coding is a steep learning curve, that never really stops (if you keep upping your game). It's mostly passion that gets people there.

OOP took me a long time to get my head round, and I'm still learning.

It takes a decade or more to master programming (or to master almost anything non-trivial). Anybody who says otherwise just doesn't realise they're a bad coder!