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The first course we had at uni that also acted as a programming introduction to me was "Data Structures and Algorithms in C" and after that they followed with a C++ course which introduced OOP.

Every other language introduced after these clicked so naturally and easily thanks to their added syntactic sugar and memory management simplifications, so I think that starting with C is indeed the best start. I think some universities have their courses made public, but there are surely enough free online resources tackling this. I found this video after a quick search that might help.

I'm sorry I can't provide any (tried and tested) suggestion, but I just wrote because I wanted to confirm that if you don't shy away from C and start learning from it, other languages will feel like a breeze, and in the end, the languages are just tools...and learning to use these tools easier means you can pick the best tool for the job easier, and that kind of flexibility rules!

So I really wish you the best in this journey!