Post #1- Programming Languages

 

Scratch is a visual programming language and an online community developed by the MIT Media Lab (Lenovo). When I first started adding blocks from the wide range of topics in the left pane, I did not see any changes being made in the right pane with the cat. It was not until I started clicking on each block after having  attached to another block, where the cat would make programmable changes. I heard the cat meow, move from one side to the screen to the other, move to the left and right, and rotate clockwise. It was very interesting to learn when you add an input you will see changes in the output.

There are many languages in programming. The last chapter (2.11) ends with introducing a popular language called Python. Most programmers should learn it and many other fields like Cyber security recommend people to learn it. Also, the textbook in Zybooks includes hyperlinks to css, html5, c#, and c++. These are the main ones and there are many more. I believe the easiest was the scratch language and the most common is Javascript since I see it on almost every programming job application requirements. As of 2022, JavaScript and HTML/CSS were the most commonly used programming languages among software developers around the world, with more than 63.6 percent of respondents stating that they used JavaScript and just around 53 percent using HTML/CSS (Vailshery).