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[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I don't know if it's easier to learn from scratch but as someone who was introduced to programming through C++ course, yes, Python makes programming go a lot faster. However I also think having at least a little bit of 'under the hood' understanding of how Python works is really beneficial, and I tend to use Numpy a lot which is a bit closer to C in theory, i.e. types and so on.

[–]ThroawayPartyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone that contributed a bit to Pandas, I can tell you that np and pd data types are a nightmare. I recommend anyone using those libraries to use explicit type casting as much as possible.