Name: Anonymous 2011-07-27 15:35
I am a high school sophomore and visited a professor in the molecular biology sciences who is also an expert programmer. (He builds robots, biochips, and a bunch of other cool gadgets.) In discussing other things, he urged me to learn Python programming, and now im very interested in computer science, and progressing rapidly. I know Python is a powerful language for its simple syntax. But if I want to go into bioinformatics (especially to use the tool http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/) and computer programming in general, maybe even study cybersecurity, is it an ideal language to start with? or is C/C++ a better choice?