What is the Easiest Programming Language to Learn?

I want to start this article by saying that choosing to learn or not learn any language due to its difficulty level is a bad start towards a career as a programmer. You’re eventually going to have to learn another language that may be harder than the “easy” language. That said, there is a solid argument for choosing a language with the most shallow learning curve. That language may make it easier for you to grasp paradigms like Object Oriented Programming, which is the bedrock of modern programming.

So, let’s define what makes a programming language easy before picking one out of a hat. These are just some parameters I came up with because at one point I wanted to learn how to program. I found that these parameters contributed towards my comprehension of programming.

Side note: this is all subjective. Some may find over-simplicity to be too much of a crutch. It really depends on your learning style at the end of the day.

An easy language has an excellent community. This community creates an ecosystem of detailed documentation that helps you solve problems. It also provides help through forums(though stack overflow has given almost every language this aspect of community). Thirdly, the community provides modules that make your life as a developer easier. Again, many languages have this feature, but a certain language is infamous for hamfisting this feature(I’m looking at you JavaScript).

An easy language comes with many built-in methods. This is a bit like the batteries included deal you get with toys. As someone new to programming in general, you’d want the language to have the function required to complete a certain task instead of being forced to recreate the wheel.

An easy to learn language isn’t mangled by rules and syntactic nuances. What scares many people off is seeing strings of curly braces and semicolons and thinking, well, how am I ever going to be able to read that, more or less write it?

An easy language doesn’t have amorphous functions. At the end of the day, functions are the bread and butter of programming…

Related posts:

For so long we did not meet with each other. This was a surprise for her and her happiness can’t be described in words. I wish some days would last forever♥.

Because you can think straight, but want to think straighter. Because of the state of the world. Because it’s Monday. Because of that one kid in third-period-who-shall-not-be-named. Because…