To be fair, a lot of college programs will teach computer programming first through a language like C or Java. Those that experience programming for the first t

To be fair, a lot of college programs will teach computer programming first through a language like C or Java. Those that experience programming for the first time in college can then jump from C to PHP or Python easily. Of course, I did it to the other way. PHP/Python --> C, and that wasn't that bad either. The big thing he needs is to learn the overall concepts using a good language; the choice of language here is not that big of a deal.