There is no right or wrong way to teach programming. You should just do whatever you can to keep whoever you're teaching motivated. When you teach it's not abo

There is no right or wrong way to teach programming. You should just do whatever you can to keep whoever you're teaching motivated. When you teach it's not about you or what you think would have been best for you, it's about understanding other people's needs. If you think bring up OOP should wait for some time in the future then wait to bring up OOP. If you think that OOP should be the basis from which programming is taught, then start with OOP. Just be a good teacher and keep them motivated. The whole goal is to get them past it all anyway. Also, programming IS messy. Extremely messy, and teaching people as though it's gonna be all greased tracks the whole way isn't doing them any service.