Is it a bad idea to try to learn multiple programming languages at once?

Question

I've finished learning the basics of JavaScript and have done some practice but I want to start learning python as well. Is that a bad idea?

Answer 1

That depends on what you want to do.
Python is even more powerful than JavaScript, because it is object-oriented, so it's a little bit more difficult. But in JavaScript you can get easily nice-looking results/outputs with some HTML, that's not so easy in Python.
Try Python, you can still cancel it if you don't like it.

I would advise you to learn some php, it helps you to code some web applications on a server (e.g. XAMPP). Also python can be combined with the server and Javascript scripts

Answer 2

If you want to build on your web capabilities, jQuery (a Javascript library) and PHP are better. Finish javascript before moving on to JQuery. That being said, I started C# and Python at the same time (Though I ended up putting the C# course on the back burner because I've had some experience in it already). Most languages are pretty similar, so it may help to reinforce some common programming concepts if you learned them at the same time. The concern may come that if you start to like one more, you'll end up not finishing the other.

Answer 3

Try to learn every programming language. Over time you will see similarities between them. For example the difference between javascript and python is besides of syntax not that big.
Than maybe look how C, C++ and Java works. If you got some experience look at assembler and compiler/interpreter stuff.

Always keep learning :)

Answer 4

It's not that bad of an idea if you don't think that you're struggling with js. If you are struggling , recommend not to do Python just yet, but, on the other hand, if you want to give up js and trade for Python, that would work too. Just be impartial to both. At different points in time, you'll feel like the language is way too hard, but if you give up at those points in time, you'll have no more programming languages. Only give up one language if you are at the breaking point. I think that it's a pretty good idea to start on Python, but don't immerse yourself in Python and forget about js. Practice JavaScript at least 3 times a week, and then take some courses in Python, and you'll be golden in both languages. Hope this helps!

Answer 5

maybe better php?