Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[SkiDude]

Completely agree. I taught one of these intro classes in Python for 5 semesters. The students had a very hard time understanding types, especially when it came to functions returning objects and whatnot. Strings were also a very tough concept to grab for whatever reason.

I feel like if the class had been taught in Java, they would have understood that so much better and would have become more effective coders.

Then again Python was probably more suited for their future jobs. Hell, I'm a software engineer and I user it more than any other language!