C++ is a better language than C in every single regard, including to learn. You don’t need to learn OOP or exception handling to use C++, but you can still use proper strings, streams, and so on. There is absolutely no reason to use C rather than C++, except when you’re building libraries for existing C architectures. The only thing C teaches that C++ doesn’t is bad habits. If you ever had to work with C++ code written by a C coder you know what I mean.
Python is a nice language, but if you want to learn how to code for the sake of improving your quality of logical thinking, I don’t see any advantage it has over scripting languages, which are easier to learn. Same thing with Javascript.
By the way, Pascal was specifically developed as a language for teaching, and Ada improved on that. The only reason schools today mostly don’t teach Pascal/Ada anymore is because C (and later C++) emerged as the dominant language in the industry, mostly due to its performance and because you can go all the way down to assembly if you want to. So a language great for teaching was largely abandoned in favour of a language great for making money. Similar things are now happening with web-languages like Java, Javascript, HTML5, PHP, …
So I guess it’s best to decide what your priorities are and proceed from there.
C++ is a better language than C in every single regard, including to learn. You don’t need to learn OOP or exception handling to use C++, but you can still use proper strings, streams, and so on. There is absolutely no reason to use C rather than C++, except when you’re building libraries for existing C architectures. The only thing C teaches that C++ doesn’t is bad habits. If you ever had to work with C++ code written by a C coder you know what I mean.
Python is a nice language, but if you want to learn how to code for the sake of improving your quality of logical thinking, I don’t see any advantage it has over scripting languages, which are easier to learn. Same thing with Javascript.
By the way, Pascal was specifically developed as a language for teaching, and Ada improved on that. The only reason schools today mostly don’t teach Pascal/Ada anymore is because C (and later C++) emerged as the dominant language in the industry, mostly due to its performance and because you can go all the way down to assembly if you want to. So a language great for teaching was largely abandoned in favour of a language great for making money. Similar things are now happening with web-languages like Java, Javascript, HTML5, PHP, …
So I guess it’s best to decide what your priorities are and proceed from there.