My first language was C++ back in 1998, and that was possibly the worst language you could choose outside ASM for a newbie. In addition to basic programming con

My first language was C++ back in 1998, and that was possibly the worst language you could choose outside ASM for a newbie. In addition to basic programming concepts like variables, loops and conditionals, I also had to contend with types, pointers, memory management, memory leaks, compiling, command line, .h files, typedef, magic main function, char * instead of real strings, etc. The list goes on. It’s like learning triathlons before you can even crawl. I struggled for a long time not quite understanding and just copy and pasting. My coding fluency jumped dramatically when I learned JS and Python a few months later. Once I finally mastered C++, everyone switched to Java as the teaching language which I think is almost as bad.