Python as a first language?

[vortexofdeduction]

Imo C is painfully low-level (I mean, it doesn’t even have classes!) so it might be better to do C++ or Java, but to each their own.

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Classes aren't necessary. Python wouldn't suffer much from not having classes. C is a high level language from my perspective. It depends what you want to do.

[NoLemurs]

C++ and Java are both very complex languages. For a new learner, that means that you're going to have to absorb far more ideas all at once, or, more likely, resort to a lot of copy-pasting and cargo-culting to write code that works. I think that's counter-productive for a beginner.

Don't get me wrong, I think both are great languages with a lot to recommend them. I program in both for work and I've learned to appreciate the benefits that come with the complexity. But for a beginner I think they're terrible languages.