What programming language should I learn for fun?
- by Bo Milanovich
Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer, but I do like coding from time to time. This is strictly for fun, nothing else. I'm an economist :)
I learned Delphi in the past (7 years ago, forgot 99% of it), BASIC (10 years ago). I now know a bit of PHP.
So I want to learn a programming language just so I can kill some time, but it'd be awesome if it would be useful as well.
I've narrowed down choices to the following:
Python (heard it was easy yet useful,
Google's appengine runs on python)
Java (awesome because cross-platform
and very popular, also I'm an Android
fan so I might even develop some
apps)
Continue learning PHP? (awesome
language, I'm a web developer
somewhat so it may be useful)
Something else?
Thanks!