I largely don't really agree with the article, other than that it feels like too often the first language students learn is not chosen very carefully. I'm pers

I largely don't really agree with the article, other than that it feels like too often the first language students learn is not chosen very carefully. I'm personally leaning towards C or Javascript — which are in a sense total opposites — but they both have interesting strengths for first learners. C is great because it's statically typed and it's hyper-simplicity allows students to really grasp the fundamentals of programming and how a program works. On the other hand Javascript and the web stack allows people to quickly do something fully interactive, and I think this can be really motivating. At my former high-school there was one CS teacher that basically only taught students how to do math in Java. Naturally, a lot of students quickly lost interest as a result.