What should a young programmer study?

Question

IT education

Hello, dear forum users!

Perhaps I have not the most interesting, but very important question for me.

I am 16 years old and in 11th grade. I really like programming, I would like to become a true professional in this field. Of course, salary is also important in the future, but the priority is still high-quality and cool knowledge and skills, not money.

This summer I got acquainted with different languages. Learned python at a basic level. I got acquainted with web development (and even made a website for which I received money, but, of course, you won’t look at the code without tears). I also watched interviews and read articles about different directions in it, different languages.

Now I am faced with a choice - what to go deep into and where to grow. By and large, everything is interesting - from JavaScript to C ++, but it is very difficult to make a specific choice. I’m constantly rushing from one to the other)

What would you advise me to study: JavaScript, Python or C ++, at this stage, in order to spend the time as efficiently as possible (after all, due to the preparation for the Unified State Examination, there will be very little of it, I plan to enter ITMO)?

In short, what investment will pay the most for brains and programming skills?

Thanks in advance)

Answer 1

First of all, you need to realize that you are not choosing one path forever now. Your specialization will not begin until you reach the middle level, somewhere around the fifth year of work. Until then, study everything that is interesting. But try to study consistently, and not jump from topic to topic. Where to start is a controversial and, probably, individual question. Personally, I would start with C++.

Answer 2

c#

Answer 3

Also 16 and enrolled at 11)
I would like to develop games in general, and I myself don’t know where to start, what to learn, etc.
I will follow this issue.