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Learn One Programming Language (I'm Serious)

Learn One Programming Language (I'm Serious)

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Kevin Naughton Jr.
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While it might sound ridiculous I wish someone encouraged me to learn a single programming language when first learning to code. When I first started learning I thought I needed to learn as many programming languages as possible. As a result, I constantly jumped between languages “learning” some Python, some Java, and some C# (emphasis on some) before f…

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