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What is a good first language?

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 16:45

My 20 year old brother wants to get into programming.  I want to set him up with a language that has these features:

1. Easy to learn, must have simple syntax
2. Immediate results, easy to make graphical and text outputs.
3. Fully featured language(I want him to be able to easily progress into more advanced stuff and not be limited by the language)
4. Fast(So he gets the idea of how powerful computers are)

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 17:21

>>7
Are you a fucking idiot? How can you possibly think Java has a "simple + easy to learn syntax"? Think about the "everything is a class" mentality, why? What does static mean? What is boxing / unboxing? What's the difference between int and Integer? What's the difference between abstract classes and interfaces?
Java is the absolute worst choice for a first language.

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