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Should I teach students who doesn't know computer science C or JavaScript first? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 day ago by ghodawalaaman@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Hello,

I am thinking about teaching my students JavaScript first so that they can start creating websites and make their career, what are your thoughts?

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[–] who@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

The main reason to not including python is that students aren’t particularly in the CS field,

In that case, I think Python is a better choice for teaching programming. Just skip the fancy features that have been bolted onto Python over the past 15 years or so.

I might argue in favour of JavaScript if web application programming is specifically the goal. But for programming in general, I consider it a troublesome language.