Am I the only one who picked the wrong language to start with and had to start over?

Elizabeth Taylor · 2026-10-18T09:15:04.177717+00:00

So about 8 months ago I sat down to finally learn to code and got stuck on the very first decision, Python or JavaScript. I picked JavaScript because some list online said it was the most used language, which felt like a smart move at the time. Big mistake for me personally. Two months in I was staring at the curly braces and callback stuff in a tutorial and my eyes just glazed over, nothing clicked. I switched to Python last weekend and suddenly the same basic loops and little guessing game exercises made sense in about 3 hours, which was kind of insulting honestly. My cousin who does this stuff for a living just laughed and asked why I never asked him first. So now I'm curious, did you pick your first language on a whim or did you actually think it through?

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