PHP and Python: Most disliked and liked languages?

Though it may not convey a very strong message, programmers have voted PHP and Python as the most disliked and liked languages respectively. Most votes which are open for the public are easily biased by influence of popular voters. These kinds of polls are highly subjective and it has no use to argue and to reason out anything. Yet the poll has some interesting results to look around and may be you might reach on some important conclusions.    

The poll has some interesting results, for example I am surprised to see that some of the recent hot languages like Ruby fail to get into top net liked list. On the other hand I am also amazed to find Javascript in the list of dislikes. Also C++, though disliked by a large number of programmers, it still has some big fans. Here is the result of the poll and the link to source actual poll.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104&utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email

     Top five most liked programming languages

1. Python by 2416 pts
2. Ruby by 1252 pts
3. C   by 1851 pts
4. Javascript by 1768 pts
5.  SQL by 1140 pts

     Top five most disliked programming languages

1. PHP by 1909 pts
2. Java by 1708 pts
3. C++  by 1130 pts
4. Javascript by 1115 pts
5. VB by 1066 pts.

Taking a deeper look, we still have PHP and Python at the top of both lists. Beneath is top five liked and disliked programming languages based on net results.

    Top five most liked programming languages (based on net likes. i.e the likes minus the dislikes)

1. Python by 2034 pts
2. C by 1551 pts
3. Go by 743 pts
4. SQL by 692 pts
5. Haskell by 679 pts

Top five most disliked programming languages (based on net dislikes. i.e the dislikes minus the likes)

1. PHP by 1330 pts
2. VB by 935 pts
3. Java by 908 pts
4. Javascript by 653 pts
5. Action script by 653 pts.

Like I said in the beginning, this list may not infer so much. But the least you can do with it is use it in choosing what programming to learn next, or what programming to use for your next project. The more people are fond of a certain languages the more you are gonna find great guys to work together. For example am scared to hell to find out that people are bashing both PHP and Java; two of my priorities. So maybe, maybe I might consider Python for my next project. 

Surprised to learn that our fathers had it figured out long ago!!! Ethiopian multiplication is what the digital world uses now!

Struggle not to get off grid

The thing about programming is its all about practicing and struggling. Its about working on project that would affect peoples life immensely. Its about being in the center of mess up. That is the only way I have added to my skills and sadly those things haven't happened as much as I would love too.

So the natural thing to do is to read and learn to improve my skills. Books and tutorials helped in a number of ways but again the thing about books/tutorials is after you read them and figured that you know certain things (or all there is to know) about that topic and leave that book/tutorial for a while, you are doomed to repeat that material. To say the least that is what happened with me and js/JQuery/php and Python. Since I work with Java at my regular job I kind of feel pretty much comfortable with it, at least with the mundane codes I’m required to maintain and write. But the rest, even though I have read some books/tutorials, I never feel comfortable and I have to go through the basics every time I want to write something simple.

Actually with coding is not never like writing an email or letter, where you open your editor and just right away write what you have in mind. Most programmers I know spent huge amount of time just finding errors and debugging. I have also read about programmers who spend most of their time just thinking before starting to program and I hope to meet one.

Anyways back to my point, the challenge I wanted to talk about is not just about that book example, the challenge is when you are in a situation where you repeatedly become off grid. May be it's because of a long meeting, or a new worthless management position or because of chilling with friends. Whatever the reason i just find myself off grid for days and its it all seems strange to get back to coding once again.

So the real struggle is to not be off grid and to at least try to write or debug for hours a day. Hence I constantly reckon that if I was actively working in a project using these awesome tools or languages, I’m sure by now I would be worrying about something advanced. So when it comes to coding reading alone is not going to cut the chase, neither is occasional coding but to struggle to not get off grid. To stay on grid and to be coding every day for a minimum of 2 hours, I believe this list would help me:

1. A real project I actually care for, and which I can learn something from,
2. Move to a place where I would interact with real programmers and developers on a daily basis, Silicon Valley would be the dream ;). Though there are a number of online communities where you would find these people, it’s obvious that it is never the same as real interaction. Not to mention the mean responses and frowns you get.
3. A playground where I can practice, create and share with the rest of the world,
4. To be an avid follower and sponge learner of sites like hackersnewsletter.com, stackoverflow.com and http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/. To be honest I have learned a lot from the these in just a short time that I wasn’t able to get from my current company, school or books,
5. An open source project I can participate,
6. My own open source project.

I don’t think I am able to do some of the things I mentioned hear at the moment but I have promised myself to do them sooner than later and to use this blog as the playground I mentioned at number 3. I have my own project besides my day time job which have been really helpful to not get off grid with coding

Start JQuery right now

I am not front end developer and I have done my share of bad designs and devalued front end development for a while. But recently I have come to dive into the wondrous world of JQuery/JS and I hope to make the life of my end users a little less miserable. And I wanted this idea or tool not just to be mine so I been trying to make people around me use JQuery as well but to no avail. I realized later that these people take JQuery as a completely new technology or language and well in projects their are lots of learning curves and no one wants to add to that long list. To be honest that was the main reason that it took me this long to start to learn it myself. 

The matter of fact is JQuery is not completely new, its just a JS plug in to get you going with fast and awesome development. So, if you are a web based application or system developer, you need to familiarize yourself with JQuery asap. To make things interesting I suggest you avoid the boring "Hello World" example you find when you learn something new and embark on it with something awesome, like the JQuery UI. Take one of the components and try to include it in your project. How? Just download the Jquery UI plugin here and include it in you project like this.