He is looking at it from the wrong way.
I am reasonably strong at CS, but as of right now I can only code in Java without consultation of the internet. So is the answer for me 1? No. I have experience with a dozen on my resumé.
Ultimately, good coders learn programming structures (queues, loops, recursion, etc), and then learn how to learn programming languages.
As he plans on being a CS student, the class he really wants is a Programming Languages course. One that will teach him the basics of grammar, difference in method implementation, and other essential stress points between languages.
The "Quora User" response was pretty close to right. He went a bit overboard: There is no way in hell that PHP is anything like SQL. (I am including SQL because he mentioned HTML).
He is looking at it from the wrong way.
I am reasonably strong at CS, but as of right now I can only code in Java without consultation of the internet. So is the answer for me 1? No. I have experience with a dozen on my resumé.
Ultimately, good coders learn programming structures (queues, loops, recursion, etc), and then learn how to learn programming languages.
As he plans on being a CS student, the class he really wants is a Programming Languages course. One that will teach him the basics of grammar, difference in method implementation, and other essential stress points between languages.
The "Quora User" response was pretty close to right. He went a bit overboard: There is no way in hell that PHP is anything like SQL. (I am including SQL because he mentioned HTML).