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by logn 4878 days ago
I think the AP Computer Science C++ program (both semesters) was excellent preparation for everything college and the real-world threw at me. They teach it in Java now which I'd support. My high school had an intro programming course before this as well.

People will get into religious wars about what language to to teach by my $.02 is that Java is sufficiently close to C/C++ for low-level prep and close to JavaScript/Ruby for scripting.