I’m skeptical on this being a good resource for learning to program. But It’s the first time I’ve seen Odin being used in an introductory resource. Would you recommend this to someone looking to learn programming?

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    1 year ago

    I don’t want to discourage anyone from trying it, but from the looks of it, there aren’t much resources for help if you get stuck. Compared to C, which is another low-level language, there is a community and (free) courses (like Harvard’s CS50) to help out with it being the first programming language to start your journey.

    Side note, I also believe there’s some taking advantage of from the use of the term ‘odin’ since it might sound familiar to “The Odin Project”; which is a free self-paced programming program structured to help complete beginners learn the basics towards landing your first webdev position.

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    No, I would either start with C or python based on their patience level.

    Heck, even Go or PHP is a decent choice, if they are interested in website backends.

    For frontend the only king is javascript.