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Re:Ask HN: If you were to learn a programming language for y... by martinp on Sunday January 31, 2010 @03:09PM (#1090995)
C# and Java enforces too many OO concepts to be a good choice for beginners. Start with something easy like Python or Perl.
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Re:Ask HN: If you were to learn a programming language for y... by gte910h on Sunday January 31, 2010 @03:33PM (#1091031)
I know my college's insistance on java as the first language that people learned (at first course 1 was psudocode, course 2 was java) put tons of people off. (This was a decade ago).

When they switched to scheme and python, people took it much better (especially media centric python).

http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315

If you wish to follow along in their intro course.

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