On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 01:14:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Python is probably a better first language than Java. D is a little too much complex as first language.
The IDE support is probably a bit better with Java/C# and using a statically typed language as your first language has advantages, but all are good first languages: easy to find tutorials, easy to find educational example code, easy to find answers to typical beginner issues on Stackoverflow…
I personally think Logo, Processing and Scheme would be more fun as learning tools, but they are throw-away languages. E.g. http://turtleacademy.com/programs/en http://www.processing.org/ and many more online programming sites.
