Preliminary note: This is a recurrent question on this forum, a genuine FAQ.

Quote from: MIT2K on February 20, 2018, 10:54:52 AM

I want to start learning coding but am not sure what would be a good language to learn?

With a passion for cryptos and blockchain is there a language that is best to master that could help me understand the programming better and logistical process?

Thanks!

First, realize that you have a profound responsibility when you write code which handles Other Peoples Money.

I am all for helping more people become Bitcoin users. But we do not need more coders. We need fewer and better coders working on Bitcoin and cryptos. Whereas most people are innately incapable of ever becoming good coders, just as I myself am innately incapable of ever becoming an Olympic gymnast.

Do I discourage you? I intend to! You should be discouraged from learning to code machinery which handles Other Peoples Money, unless you have such a keen ability that nothing I say could possibly discourage you. People who have such an ability always do know themselves that way.

If you think youre up to it, and you want to take on an awful responsibility: First, learn much, much more about computing generally. Read up on the fundamentals of applied cryptography. Then, learn Bitcoin technical concepts inside and out. By the time you get through all this learning, you wont need to ask for advice on picking a language: Youll know enough to do that yourself.

I do not recommend selecting a beginners language for anything whatsoever to do with Other Peoples Money. Use a beginners language if you want to do casual programming, making little games or performing little practical tasks on your own computer. If you want to handle Other Peoples Money, then you need to be a serious programmer. Serious programmers usually dont start with a beginners language; certainly if they have the aptitude, they dont need to. If you read up on the concept of, say, pointer arithmetic, and you feel that little light bulb go on in your headthen why wouldnt you start by playing with pointers?

Quote from: johniadeluca on February 21, 2018, 04:05:16 AM

If you have NO experience start with HTML and CSS, slowly work your way into JS. Once in JS, Solidity should come fairly easy to you

This is how we eventually obtain such threads as, Bad Code Has Lost $500M of Cryptocurrency in Under a Year. See especially the discussion downthread of Ethereum.

If thats how you need to learn to code, then YOU SHOULD NOT BE CODING. Most of all, you should stay the hell away from Other Peoples Money.

Think: Would you trust a surgeon who started his formal studies by doing surgery on pineapples with a kitchen knife, then worked up from there?

We will stop getting Bad Code Lost XYZ threads, when people take the coding of financial software as seriously as they take the practice of medicine, engineering of bridges and tunnels, and other professional tasks where errors result in PEOPLE GETTING HURT.

Edit: Cross-reference: Re: Bad Code Has Lost $500M of Cryptocurrency in Under a Year