I'm not sure there is a big enough market gap between something like Scratch, and Python to justify teaching this. I remember learning programming using Pascal

I'm not sure there is a big enough market gap between something like Scratch, and Python to justify teaching this. I remember learning programming using Pascal in middle school, and while I really liked the language (in many ways I still prefer it to C), my first lesson began by the teacher mentioning that Pascal is a language designed for learning programming in contrast to 'real' languages used in the industry. This immediately made me think 2 things: - If I want to be a cool kid, I'll have to move on to a 'big-boy' language like C. - Any effort invested into learning Pascal is wasted, since it's only a tutorial for a 'real' language