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Discussion on: Best Languages to Learn How to Code

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Jonathan Boudreau

I think the main thing you need to worry about is the ecosystem and community when it comes to a good first language. Documentation will definitively play a major role if they actually want to build something out of their newly acquired skill eventually.

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Peter Denno

Good point. I suggest Scratch first above. Tremendous IDE and community. For a second language I would look for a read-eval-print loop (clojure) or shell (python) and nice tools. See 4clojure.