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Durhode Petifort

The first language I learned was python and the whole time I was just learning how to do things. Second language was JavaScript and I learned a bit more about what I was doing and how to lookup information to accomplish it. My third language was Java and that's when I finally started to understand what I was doing and how to do it.

Learn Java first, there's enough abstraction that it's not grindy but also the YouTube tutorials tend to be much more robust. Additionally, the language itself almost forces you to learn to code well.

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Kanishk Khurana

i agree! my first language was also python but when i shifted to C++ i realised how abstract python was and how detailed C++ is. it really helped me understand CS fundamentals a lot better.