r/learnprogramming
4.4M members
r/learnprogramming is a subreddit with 4.4M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses learning, programming, struggling, coding, and study partner, and they frequently recommend/review programming language, programming languages, and java ide.
A subreddit for all questions related to programming in any programming language (Contributions are only allowed in English!).
Popular Themes in r/learnprogramming
#1
Advice Requests
: "Documentation for self taught beginner"
13 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "About to finish my QA bootcamp and feeling severe anxiety about the entry-level market."
2 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Looking for existing work on autonomous/agentic API testing from OpenAPI"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "I want to enable people to monetise their opensource code"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "Built a VS Code extension that mentors you instead of writing code for you (looking for contributors)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/learnprogramming
#1
Learning
14 posts
#2
Programming
12 posts
#3
Struggling
11 posts
#4
Coding
10 posts
#5
Study Partner
4 posts
#6
Mentor
3 posts
#7
Python
3 posts
#8
Java
3 posts
#9
Oop
3 posts
#10
New
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/learnprogramming
Programming Language
162 reviews
#1
Python
4.6★ from 80 reviews
#2
JavaScript
3.7★ from 14 reviews
#3
C
3.9★ from 9 reviews
Programming Languages
91 reviews
#1
C++
4.0★ from 12 reviews
#2
Go
4.7★ from 10 reviews
#3
JavaScript
5.0★ from 8 reviews
Java Ide
60 reviews
#1
JetBrains
4.5★ from 24 reviews
#2
IntelliJ IDEA
5.0★ from 11 reviews
#3
Eclipse
3.8★ from 9 reviews
Flair Used in r/learnprogramming
#1
Topic
: "How can I deal with this problem?"
6 posts
#2
Resource
: "good video to learn java?"
2 posts
#3
Debugging
: "Switched from FullStack to AI Engineering last year"
2 posts
#4
Code Review
: "SSHBool — Open-source SSH & Server Management Workspace"
1 post
#5
question
: "Is it considered brain rot? If i write in plain english, then use AI to convert english to code?"
1 post
#6
language decision question
: "Need helping deciding between c and c++ to learn first for my future school projects"
1 post
#7
architecture
: "Looking for existing work on autonomous/agentic API testing from OpenAPI"
1 post
Member Growth in r/learnprogramming
Yearly
+156k members(3.7%)
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Last updated: August 11, 2026