I want start with python but I don’t know what operating system and tools to use. I have a 6 RAM icore3 180 GB hard disk Notebook laptop running Linux mint. I plan to save up to Buy a PC in the future but for I have to make due my old laptop
I am also wondering how does the programming market look like in terms of operating system. Does it matter which operating system you use? In terms of programming institutions (universities bootcamps, etc…), do each institutions have its own preference or does it let its student choose?
You don’t need any kind of special computer to learn programming. Find an introduction to programming course in Python that works for you and just go for it. Eventually a nice laptop will be useful but you’re not writing the kind of code that’s going to take hours to compile for the first couple of years anyway.
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You don’t need any kind of special computer to learn programming. Find an introduction to programming course in Python that works for you and just go for it. Eventually a nice laptop will be useful but you’re not writing the kind of code that’s going to take hours to compile for the first couple of years anyway.
A lot of courses online now provide sandboxes to code.
For example, freecodecamp - you can learn web dev without ever leaving the browser.