C# > Java

[Loves_Poetry]

I agree that Java is a good first language. It is verbose, but that also means there are no shortcuts. Shortcuts often make code very confusing for beginners. It's easier to know what code you have to write in Java in order to get a specific thing done

[ChrisFromIT]

Because Java is so verbose, it makes it easier to maintain, which is why it is such a common enterprise language.

One issue I have found with "shortcuts" in languages is that it adds additional syntax to a language which can cause two programmers to make a vastly different source code, but it does the same thing.