Wow, they really made sure they picked something even less suitable
/Fay-lee-nuh/ @Felienne
24 Jul 2017
Stanford finally moves away from Java for their introductory programming course to... JavaScript ow.ly/UR6K30dRU3L

Jul 24, 2017 · 6:03 PM UTC

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@stilkov which language would you prefare for learning?
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Maybe Ada, some Pascal variant, Scheme/Racket. Even C seems a better choice.
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Replying to @stilkov @hpgrahsl
Though I'm a JavaScript guy nowadays, I don't think it's a good language to lern programming too.
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At least it's not perl :)
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Oh Wow. How to learn all the wrong stuff in the most expensive way.
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If you’ve been through the worst, everything else will become a piece of cake… 😉
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My university languages, in order of learning, were Ada, Lisp, C and Java. That worked well.