I am in a similar position to the OP, although I am learning c++ as a first language. It seems like most of the open-courseware type programs are either scheme

I am in a similar position to the OP, although I am learning c++ as a first language. It seems like most of the open-courseware type programs are either scheme (old mit)/java (stanford)/python (new mit). Seeing as what im interested in (computational finance/bio) is mostly C/C++ that's why I'm going with C++. If anyone thinks im crazy and should switch to another language or anything else that I should be looking at I'd love to know.