Which Programming Language

[Bar0n]

While you could use MATLAB, and it is programming language (guess I was a little stupid there), it is far from best solution to the question that was posed. OP wants to be a programmer and not an engineer, hence me not recommending MATLAB.

Again, why? It's an intuitive language and supports everything you'd need for an introductory programming course. It might lack some data structures, but you'd be able to do several classic algorithms in it; it supports iterations, functions, dynamic arrays, basic fs I/O, etc.

 

[Dylan_G]

Again, why? It's an intuitive language and supports everything you'd need for an introductory programming course. It might lack some data structures, but you'd be able to do several classic algorithms in it; it supports iterations, functions, dynamic arrays, basic fs I/O, etc.

Okay. Guess I'm wrong then.

Why don't Comp Sci/high school students ever do MATLAB ?

 

[Bar0n]

Okay. Guess I'm wrong then.

Why don't Comp Sci/high school students ever do MATLAB ?

The cost of the licences would be my guess. At my old university, MATLAB is included in the compsci course as an elective (I think it was recently made compulsory actually), but offered by the maths department. For a lot of B.Sc. students, MATLAB is their first programming course. Some take the compsci (C#) intro course, others take the math (MATLAB) one.