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I can personally say, as a student for whom C++ was my 'intro' language (not counting PHP and javascript which I already knew) I would much rather they started with Python or Java.

When the concept of classes and OOP just sort of jumped out from the middle of the first semester I could see people's heads exploding everywhere.

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But people need to learn things like OO and memory anyway, why not do it with a language that teaches you both? It's not like the introduction to programming in Java would have final bufferbuffers everywhere to avoid garbage collection. C++, as bad as it is, teaches you both how memory works and how OO works.

That's a fair point.

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