Should I Learn JavaScript Before Objective-C?

Should I learn JavaScript before Objective C?

Those two languages have very little in common. Well, both might be used to display a game on your iPhone.

I've heard that C programming languages are harder to learn than JavaScript.

And you learn bad habits programming in a language with lazy syntax like JavaScript. And JavaScript's OOP structure doesn't teach you broad principles you need to program in any serious programming language.

I take it you don't like JavaScript.

It works OK for web interfaces. The problem is when people think they can build the back end processes in JavaScript, too.

JavaScript is easy to program in.

Cooking pasta is easy too. But using JavaScript to build both the user interface and back end processing results in a huge tangled pile of spaghetti code that is often little more than a wet noodle compared to a program written in C.

If I learn Objective C, I might not learn enough objective oriented programming to transfer those skills.

So learn C++ and Objective C. At least in that case, learning one bolsters your skills in the other.

And where and when should I learn JavaScript?

You don't get to relax and lay back as a soldier until after boot camp and learning the necessary rules and discipline to follow them. After you're good in a stricter language like Objective C or Python, then you can move on to JavaScript.

It's not like I can learn JavaScript as quickly as I could say HTML.

HTML takes a long weekend. JavaScript could be picked up in a few weeks after learning Objective C.

It's a pity that they don't do more JavaScript for Apple.

Are you kidding? Nearly every mobile website those people visit has JavaScript in it.

But only knowing JavaScript means I could get pigeonholed as a web developer, instead of being taken seriously as a programmer.

Learn Objective C and then JavaScript. Having Objective C listed first on the resume gets you more respect with HR.