My university had an interesting approach to that problem - where it was necessary or useful to use real code, different classes were deliberately taught in dif

My university had an interesting approach to that problem - where it was necessary or useful to use real code, different classes were deliberately taught in different languages (mix of Java/ML/C/MIPS/Verilog). What language would you say is a good first language? To me, Python seems very readable to a new programmer without having a capability/tooling ceiling that you will eventually reach, which seem to make it a decent choice.