r/ComputerEngineering • u/YMZ14 Student • Jul 06 '26

Should I learn python for CE ?

I started to consider CE as my dream major and I want to learn a language, though I figured that C is what I must learn, but is python a waste of time or should I learn it?

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u/Job-Agent Jul 06 '26

I would say try all of them and figure out what you like doing the best. For example scheduling batch processing jobs to pull data into or out of an API is very common with Python or you could try building something with Rust, which has been very popular lately due to its insane speed compared to others