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Summary
This document is a curated list of beginner focused topics and concepts that every programming language has. As a programmer, learning the first programming language is always the hardest, but once you’ve learned one, the rest are just a matter of noticing patterns and relations. This document is a more shallow overlook at the following:
Syntax: Syntax differences and similarities between programming languages.General Data Types: The primitive data types that are common across all languages.Operators: The common operators that are used accross all languages.Control Flow: The basic control flow statements that exist in all languages.Arrays: The basic arrays, lists, and collections that are common across all languages.Strings: How strings are handled in all languages, and the basic string operations that are common across all languages.Functions and Methods: What methods are, how they are defined, and how they are called in all languages.Error Handling: The basic error handling that is common across all languages.Generics: The basic generics that are common across all languages.Lambda Expressions: The basic lambda expressions that are common across all languages.Extensions: The basic extensions that are common across all languages.
More topics will be covered in subsequent documents but for more specific languages, such as Java having its own topics and C# having its own topics. Please consider this document as a reference for the basics of programming languages and the fundamentals that are common across all languages, ofc with some exceptions — that’s how I will take it.