What’s your fastest time frame in learning a coding language? Please name the language.

Answer 1

I won't say that @Ethan. However, my teachers came to me within a week of learning my first language as I already knew it better than they did. Programming languages makes sense to me. I can tell when something is wrong like most can tell when someone speaks sentences incorrectly.

Answer 2

Please do not think learning a language is something you can accomplish in few weeks or months!
Sure you can learn the basics fast and once learned one language the others are easy to learn.

But keep in mind that mastering a language and get a solid programming skill is another thing, and require a lot of time..

That said.
C++ took me a month for the SL course.
about a year to get a reasonable base coding skill.
Now i'm gonna study the advanced part and the whole std library.

Once did so there are a lot of non std libraries , Microsoft APIs, unreal engine API , mastering c and C#..
many things to do!

an advice.. you are free to follow or not.

NO HURRY NO RUSH but DEEPEN , ENHANCE !

Answer 3

@John Wells a solid background like yours is the key to master programming in general!

Answer 4

I've fixed bugs and coded in languages I haven't learned in minutes, but I know so many other languages (68) that just looking at the code I know what needs to be done.

Answer 5

@tiramisu most are dead military or obsolete assembly languages. See this for more details on me:
https://code.sololearn.com/Wp5HV2PC5z5H

I was a corporate troubleshooter for many years going into projects that were failing to fix them. I'd spend a week finding timing issues, network issues, etcetera within million lines of code in languages I never saw before. My best fix was a 100 times improvement in 3 hours. Most fixes were 10 times with a list of changes that needed to be made after I was gone yielding 20 times.

@Jan the US military had over 450 different languages, when they decided to standardize on Ada.

Answer 6

Most of those languages don't support OOP so they were easier to learn than Python. I've fixed bugs in people's programs here in Python before I started the course plus C# and Ruby, which I've not started those courses.

My first few running Kotlin programs were done without learning the language as I wanted to finish Python first. I still consider myself learning all languages here that I've taken the course for, except C and C++ as I have decades of experience with them. Truthfully, there is always something new to learn in any language.

Answer 7

But, mastery of any language, isn't in my mind, doable anymore. The syntax can be mastered, but the runtime libraries keep expanding. Even languages I use to have mastered aren't what I know these days.

Of those 68 languages, I don't even consider myself an expert any more of any of them, either because of the decades since I touched them or the expansion of libraries I haven't seen.

I do consider myself an expert in programming in general because I can code anything you want in any language you want it done in. But, I know I won't make use of all the best features of that language.

Answer 8

@Ethan if anything, it is a conservative number. I already knew more languages than everyone I worked with so I kept track of it. But, that doesn't mean I didn't forget to count one or two along the way. I had a list of them, but lost it back in 2002 along with most of my possessions. I only counted languages I used for a week or more so there are a few that were a day or two that didn't make the list.

Answer 9

genius @John

Answer 10

@John Wells, 68 languages!!! How did you do that??? What’s your secret? Please share!

Answer 11

@Ethan in college September 1973 at 19 I learned Fortran in my first week. That got me a job working for the college in Cobol that I learned while getting paid during the next week. Before the year was out I was programming in 6 languages. Assembly for CDC mainframe taking the longest to learn at 2 weeks. You need to remember the languages didn't have OOP or loops structures back then.

Answer 12

@John "68"
is that true.

Answer 13

it took me one week to learn html, 2 weeks to master css, 1 day to learn javascript and maybe 2 weeks to understand it properly and master it

Answer 14

in 6 months i had completed just learning in sololearning the programming languages like Html5, Css and JavaScript with in it java and c++ too.

Answer 15

@John Wells, WOW!!! 😍💕❤️ I am impressed and inspired !!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Very honoured to meet you!

Answer 16

@John what is your starting language of programming that you had started and in what age.

Answer 17

@john wells, 😵68 , sir ur my new inspiration, and well said about that mastery not doable now , I too felt like this with stcking to JavaScript for few months, that it's not possible new stuff keeps coming

but we can stay updated with the neverending trend for that language as much as we can.

Answer 18

all depends on how serious you are. you could create your own simple HTML page after a week and it could take someone else a month to do the same.
still on HTML, it could take you weeks to understand most portions of facebook's script. thanks to CSS, and JavaScript

Answer 19

Around 2 days in and I’m here on HTML

Answer 20

If anyone is starting he/she should learn HTML5