What programming languages should I learn?

I’ve lived in both France and Spain, and part of the reason I decided to live in these countries, was because I already spoke the language in both places. If I achieve my dream of living in Italy, I know exactly which language I’ll learn to make it as easy as possible to integrate: Italian, obviously (or love and food, depending on your perspective).

Deciding which computer programming language to learn isn’t quite so straightforward; it all depends on what your goal is, what task you want to achieve, or what problem you need to solve.

Some of the most common languages include (we’re including the aforementioned HTML and CSS, despite the debate):

HTML

Javascript

Python

CSS

Ruby

PHP

C++

SQL

Some of these languages are easier and more desirable to learn than others, although that doesn’t make them any less useful. In fact, it may be more beneficial for your career to learn one of the “dreaded” computer programming languages, as you’ll be more in demand.

According to Stack Overflow’s data, the most disliked languages are Perl, Delphi, and VBA followed by PHP, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, and Ruby.

The most important question you need to ask yourself before starting to learn is:

Do you want to focus on how a website looks to users, or do you care more about how it works?

Those are two of the main distinctions between what are known as front-end and back-end computer programming languages.