I learn Turbo Pascal before Turbo C (about 2 decades ago, in high school). Both used the same procedural programming approach. It was a really easy switch. Try

I learn Turbo Pascal before Turbo C (about 2 decades ago, in high school). Both used the same procedural programming approach. It was a really easy switch. Trying to learn Haskell after C++, on the other side, was difficult for me.