Should I learn Python or JavaScript for web development? My priority is to get a job ASAP.
My kinda’ question!
If you desire a job quickly, either language will be of great value. Worry less about the language and more about where you want to go in your nascent career. If you are dead-set on web development, then JavaScript is your best choice, but be aware that to get a job, you will also need to have extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS, which are both huge blocks of syntax that require memorization.
If you learn Python, you can avoid having to memorize the edifices of syntax that are HTML/CSS and stay in the language to develop a career in machine learning, but this will require much more knowledge of abstract concepts specific to the field. This is a large undertaking.
Based on my experiences on the market, if you don’t care where you go, you just want a job, then forget JavaScript and Python and focus on HTML and CSS. Take quizzes. Read Smashing Magazine and CSS Tricks. Make demo pages that show off your mad CSS $|<1||z. Then learn Bootstrap. Trust me when I say there are countless large companies out there that have incorrectly leveraged Bootstrap and now have a web application that rips itself apart on tablets and mobile phones.
After you’ve memorized them and have great demo content, then work on learning how JavaScript can be used to manipulate the UI. This is simple stuff, like changing colors and handling on-click
events. You aren’t learning any real software engineering yet. Still, you will probably be able to get a job with this.
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