Re:Choosing a Programming Language
by setrofim_ on Friday April 05, 2013 @03:42AM
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From educational perspective, C# is kinda messy. It had a lot of the things bolted on over the versions. Don't get me wrong, most of those things are useful, and it is nice to have them in the language, but it does make the language more complicated and less consistent.
Since the goal of a school-level course is to introduce student to programming, rather than give them knowledge immediately useful in the industry (which the student may or may not go on to work in), C# is probably not a good introductory language. Though, in this respect, it is no worse than either Java or C++ (and I suspect those end up being preferred because of tradition, and because VS licenses are expensive).
Personally, I think something like Python would make a better introductory language in schools -- it's small, clean and high level, while at the same time practical and widely used.
Since the goal of a school-level course is to introduce student to programming, rather than give them knowledge immediately useful in the industry (which the student may or may not go on to work in), C# is probably not a good introductory language. Though, in this respect, it is no worse than either Java or C++ (and I suspect those end up being preferred because of tradition, and because VS licenses are expensive).
Personally, I think something like Python would make a better introductory language in schools -- it's small, clean and high level, while at the same time practical and widely used.