C Sharp (programming language)
C#, learned through the Unity game engine
The serious game maker's start, and a language that also leads to ordinary business software jobs. Unity's beginner Junior Programmer pathway has you writing C# scripts in the first unit, steering a car down a floating road past obstacles, then building a top-down game about throwing food to hungry animals.
C# asks for more structure than Python, with types and braces to get right, so early progress feels slower. In return it is a full professional language behind Windows apps, web services and many commercial games, and Microsoft publishes free courses for it.
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