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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

You're reading from   Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career 65 steps to becoming a better developer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287037
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface I. Coder Skills FREE CHAPTER II. Freelancer Skills III. Career Skills Index

Chapter 49. How to Choose Your Next Programming Language?

We have discussed the importance of picking a development specialty, such as frontend, server side, or mobile. However, simply choosing a specialty is not enough. You also need to decide on what programming language you want to focus on for the initial, or next, stage of your career.

No book or guide can tell you what language you should learn next, of course. That's a decision that can be made only by your. So, in this chapter my goal is to help you decide how to pick a programming language based on your current objectives.

How to pick a programming language?

If you went through the exercise for picking your developer specialty, you will notice a similar pattern for deciding on a programming language. A quick perusal of Wikipedia will reveal that there are literally hundreds of programming languages to choose from. If you take the approach of looking at each language one at a time, you might be able to make an informed...

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