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Hello

To learn about computer architecture and low level programming and someday, hopefully, work as a programmer, which language would you learn on and on which OS? Note - the concept of big data seems interesting to me.

I took early retirement from a government job where we supported the SAP system. Have done some Access, VBA, and 3 online classes years ago - VB, C and C++.

Linux keeps coming up when I research this. I have both Mac (current) and Windows 10 computers plus an older desktop with Debian Linux on it.

Would you learn C++ on the Windows 10 machine, straight C on the Linux (on even on the Mac), or Swift from Apple? Or something else?

thanks

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

If your emphasis is on big data, I would consider Linux for Your OS, in particular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, Debian or maybe CentOS distributions. I would become familiar with Hadoop (and possibly Pig or Hive). In terms of a programming language, a background in C++ is always useful, but for big data, consider R or Python. I’m guessing you’ll get lots of (differing) opinions on this depending on the responder’s particular experience and specialty.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Look at 'linux and other OS jobs' online - they usually specify what they want experiance in. Linux appears to be growing as Windows steadily loses ground. Apps seems to be a growing market too.

my ignorant two pennyworth.

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

Is JAVA still in popular use or is that passe now-a-days?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

No, Java is still cool, and a small percentage of big data aps are written in Java.