Programming languages that everyone should learn | George Hotz and Lex Fridman

C and Python are really all I use anymore. I think it's important to actually limit the amount of langs you learn so you can focus on real computer science rather than constantly learning frameworks and syntactic things that aren't important.

And everybody should know vb it’s gotta be the most basic programming language there is very easy I would say learn vb before you learn any other language cause vb will help you learn the logic behind coding and help you start to think like a programmer then go learn c

Shit advice.

Assembly is about hardware as well. You literally write the instructions that are almost always directly understood by your hardware

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The hell with assembly, stupid waste of time appreciate dez nuts.

Vhdl is kinda cool

Data driven programming = memory latency workaround programming?

I'm imagining someone actually following this advice 😢

If you HAD to learn assembly or C first before anything else, the world would fewer programmers :)

I learn assembly because of his suggestion, now I can actually visualise how machine code executes in CPU. I loved it. My understanding is broadened. ❤ he is a 10X developer, not a myth anymore

assembly is abstract as fuck dont try to learn it if you want to get into programming. Python is the only choice for an introduction to programming

For not complete novices but programmers in the early stages of their journey, what tools does anyone recommend to learn these low-level programming concepts (no CS degree) or languages such as Assembly and C

Future Ref.



S tier: Assembly, C and Python
Commendable list: Pytorch, haskell for a functional programming.

“I’m not a great Haskell programmer. I wrote a compiler in Haskell once.”
- George Hotz

Lex struggles to understand what Geo is really trying to say

python...

I think there is no one right answer. His answer is correct for deep level programmers, but I'm not sure data analysts need to know how to program in assembly language. Data Analysts should know C, Python, SQL, C Sharp, and tools such as Visual Studio. So many programming languages it is hard to know and keep up with all of them.

super helpful thank you

love it

George is essentially describing what it takes to get an electrical engineering degree minus differential and functional programming 👍🏼

ChatGPT learned HUMAN to program the World

No PHP!? Only cause they are already rich 🤑 🤨😆

I think Practically Everybody should Learn C , Java and Python.

I understood most of those words.

"I'm not a great Haskell programmer...I wrote a compiler in Haskell once"

he just try to be edgy, in real world if you dont know the basic of OOP at all, you are in a big disadvantage.

This is so true. I went through CS50 which is mostly in C. Now Im learning python and i have to keep myself is check not to go the long way around a problem, because sometime I dont even think theres a simple method or function built in for something thats like 10+ lines of custom code in C.

Respect for saying c and assembly

He says the inverse than before.
Learn coding by doing a project.
A lot of projects dont need assembly.
So it means you need to learn theory to improve.

Good answer is learn Golang and JavaScript and you ready to go :)

Assembly, C, Python, Haskell, Verilog-VHDL, pytorch.
And...
go swiftly learn Javascript, R now.

I imidietly started to feel like a clown as soon as he mentioned Assembly. I had once course at uniy and hate it the moment I saw assembly code.

This guy is giving bad advice

Peter griffin

Love your videos mate ! great interviews!

I think it's insane to recommend assembly to a beginner!

I've embarked on this path as of late, after years of being a high level web developer with no formal degree in CS, i'm embarking on a knowledge journey all the way back to assembly and machine code and C and really trying to understand what a computer does and how it works from a mere transistor point upwards. it's a great and long journey but one that i find fascinating and the more i learn the more i feel like i have superpowers. low level programmers who fundamentally understand these. concepts are like computer whisperers

Programming languages can be seen similarly to Guitar styles, the question shouldn't be what is the best to learn, the question is what is it you want to do. Take conversational language, why would you learn chinese if you have no interest in china, don't know any chinese people who speak it and ever want to go to china, it would be pointless learning it. In music if your aim is to play Punk rock and you admire The Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols, you wouldn't go and get classical guitar training or study Jazz guitar. You should learn the program that's going to get you the results you need, if your desire is to code computer games for Playstation and XBox then you will need C# not Php, if you want to build front end web-sites for business and client portfolios you will want to learn Javascript not JAVA.

Would a carpenter kit himself out with the toolset of an electrician ? what use is a hammer and nails to someone who wants to paint and decorate ?

Why learn the 5 most popular languages from computing that led up to the 1st apple mac, we live in a different world, would a modern film director go and study how they made films in the 1920s or spend his time knowing the modern ways of filmmaking in digital ?

You can study 10 languages and you will only use 2 of them or study 2 you will always need, what is more efficient and will make you better and more skillful ?

Do people learn to talk english the way they did in the 1500s ? what use is it in society today ?

Phenomenal energy, Lex.

Don't listen to them. They are may be geniuses. Any new person who wants to learn programming should start with
c++ or java or c#.

You have to program in Pascal to appreciate how nice languages that aren't shit are.

I'm just wondering what this guy is looking outside the window??? weird 🧐🧐

My solution:
Learn the language you want to learn, first. You, know, the one that lets you build what you want to build, or acquire that dream job.

Then, go back and use assembly, when you quit, because it blows, your now more grateful. Now go back and learn C, 50/50 chance you like it or quit again. But either way you will gain lots of gratitude in a short amount of time! Congrats! You saved yourself months of learning two languages that are probably useless to you, and still gained appreciation!

-Your friend,
Lazy programmer
Joker

no one needs to learn assembly

ok the sequence is 1. ASM, 2. C, 3. Python, 4. Tensorflow(framework). Do 8086 assambly counts! then I touch all of them. lol

IMHO, good old plain C remains the queen of simplicity and universal power. Spend some time to learn it. Then spend some more to code data structures and algorithms in it.
After that, there will be nothing you can't learn, and therefore, nothing to stop you.

“Everyone must learn C!” …which has like 4 different derivatives