I think JAVA is a great way to get started. It lacks freedom and it covers a range of OOP concepts you’ll need familiarity with through its lack of freedom. It’s also a language you can actually use to get a job.
The job bit will vary from region to region, but in Europe, almost everything runs on either JAVA or C#, and I do mean almost everything. If I go to a job database the two top languages are JAVA and C# and the third, php, is around a 1/5 of either of those.
For computer science anyway. If you’re into IOT, Engineering, datascience or robotics you’ll do python or C.
Back to JAVA. It’s lack of freedom is a great teacher. You’ll learn what return types are in your first function along with access modifiers and it really only goes on from there.
I think python is a great language, but I think it’s much harder to teach programming with because it’s so forgiving and free.
I mean, freedom and joy of use could probably be really great motivators, but most CS teachers aren’t exactly great at that part of teaching, at least not the ones I had, and unless you’re really good at teaching freedom and easy of use both become risky.
The job bit will vary from region to region, but in Europe, almost everything runs on either JAVA or C#, and I do mean almost everything. If I go to a job database the two top languages are JAVA and C# and the third, php, is around a 1/5 of either of those.
For computer science anyway. If you’re into IOT, Engineering, datascience or robotics you’ll do python or C.
Back to JAVA. It’s lack of freedom is a great teacher. You’ll learn what return types are in your first function along with access modifiers and it really only goes on from there.
I think python is a great language, but I think it’s much harder to teach programming with because it’s so forgiving and free.
I mean, freedom and joy of use could probably be really great motivators, but most CS teachers aren’t exactly great at that part of teaching, at least not the ones I had, and unless you’re really good at teaching freedom and easy of use both become risky.
Or maybe I’m just old and grumpy.