Former CS1 (and CS50) TF here. I wish CS1 would rebrand itself - maybe focus on web programming with a framework (like Hartl's Rails Tutorial) or computational

Former CS1 (and CS50) TF here. I wish CS1 would rebrand itself - maybe focus on web programming with a framework (like Hartl's Rails Tutorial) or computational thinking with Python. As is, Java has nearly as much syntactic overhead as C (at least no pointers, thank god), which makes it hard to get into useful & exciting things.