C is better than C++ but I think you can more gently introduce people to programming with an easier language like python or ruby and move on to C to learn memor

C is better than C++ but I think you can more gently introduce people to programming with an easier language like python or ruby and move on to C to learn memory management and typing once they understand variables, functions, basic logic etc But we generally teach computer science instead of just programming so we don't have separate classes