My first programming language was C++ and I was 11 years old when I learnt it. People have different reactions when I say this. But it has been the best decision for my professional career and for my systems thinking.
Time and again it has proven to be the catalyst in
Google researcher @lauriewired warns the shift from C++ to Python in universities is creating programmers who don't understand how computers actually work:
"When I was in college getting my CS degree, my year was one of the last years that was using C++ as the core language for
every time I see some code in Python, my eyes roll automatically
what a sad programming language to exist
and to think that universities are teaching students python as the sole programming language nowadays boils my blood
