Here's an anecdote - Java almost made me drop out. My university was teaching Java and it was absolutely awful experience. Me with my web 1.0 html/css and turbo pascal experience was blown away how awful "professional" programming was.

Then I found this new kid on the block Python and it was a completely different story. I fell in love with programming and hacking in general and finally at the end of the study I knew enough of python to bootstrap myself with Java which I still think is an abomination.