PSA: stop telling beginners to learn Python first, it almost made me quit

Ray Williams · 2026-09-11T01:50:04.189634+00:00

My cousin kept pushing me to start with Python back in March, and after 3 weeks of tutorials I still couldn't make anything I actually wanted to use. Then a friend at a meetup in Austin showed me how to build a dumb little calculator with HTML and JavaScript in one afternoon, and suddenly things clicked. Python isn't bad, it's just that nobody tells you the boring console stuff feels pointless when you're brand new. So which side are you on, should beginners start with the language everyone recommends, or the one that lets them see something on screen fastest?

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