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>> At this point, I can't see a reason to teach her anything but Python.

Agreed. If you start in any other language, you'll be spending less time teaching programming and more time teaching the language.

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I started my son on Python but he switched to Java because that's what you need to write Minecraft mods. That lasted for two or three years. Now, thanks to Advent of Code, he's coming back to Python again, as well as assembly language (he did the Nand to Tetris course and is very interested in designing his own CPU on FPGA). Eventually I'm going to show him Scheme and SICP.

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