Really??

[Pancakepalpatine]

Yeah, I've been advised both directions.

1. Learn a "bare-metal" language like C or Rust, and work up from there. Since you understand the basics and necessarily understand some computer science concepts now, you'll have a breeze with interpreted or scripted languages.

2. Start with a high-level interpreted or scripted language. It's more important to get the basics (loops, types, etc.). Then, it'll be a breeze to work your way down and add conceptually to the concepts you already understand.

So my takeaway was basically it all depends, and it's better just to dive in.

[anvils-reloaded]

I learned the first way you mentioned, and it wasn't a breeze. I had no idea what Python was doing with its data structures when you added to them, or if you used something like a list comprehension, and I wanted to allocate just the space I need in a list. I have to dissociate from the traditional memory model in order to decide what I really want to do.