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Question about starting with Python for everyone

I keep hearing people say 'just learn Python first' like it's the only way. My friend in Chicago said it, and I tried it for a week. I found the way it handles types so loosely made me mess up simple math a lot. Has anyone else started with something stricter, like Java, and had a better time?
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morgan_jenkins90
Yeah, strict types help you learn better.
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felix488
felix48811d ago
Man, I saw this play out with my buddy last year. He was learning Python and kept hitting weird bugs from loose type stuff. @wendy_clark would've laughed - he spent a whole weekend tracking down a string being treated as a number. Strict typing would've caught that in seconds. Now he swears by it for anything new he tries.
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wendy_clark
Totally. That loose typing drove me nuts too.
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