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Learn to Code with Odin Programming Language - Introduction (dev.to)

submitted 1 year ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/learn_programming@programming.dev

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I'm skeptical on this being a good resource for learning to program. But It's the first time I've seen Odin being used in an introductory resource. Would you recommend this to someone looking to learn programming?

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[–] LemmyStartNow@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't want to discourage anyone from trying it, but from the looks of it, there aren't much resources for help if you get stuck. Compared to C, which is another low-level language, there is a community and (free) courses (like Harvard's CS50) to help out with it being the first programming language to start your journey.

Side note, I also believe there's some taking advantage of from the use of the term 'odin' since it might sound familiar to "The Odin Project"; which is a free self-paced programming program structured to help complete beginners learn the basics towards landing your first webdev position.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The guy that designedand named Odin didn't even know what The Odin Project was when he was asked about it. And the (different) guy that made the linked article and video seems to just like the language so I don't think there's any attempt to capitalize on the popularity of The Odin Project.

The community and ecosystem around Odin seems limited, but before you even get to that, the content in this article seems lacking. There's a single followup article and then that's it. I don't know if they plan to continue this series. If they don't, I don't know why they wrote it at all.