Originally Posted by madeinuk
I am so old that I have always liked the parsimony of good old fashioned C. My K&R still sits up there on my office book shelves and even though I never use it anymore I am loath the throw it out. I think that C allows learning of the fundamentals very well without a whole lot of syntax to worry about.
Harvard's popular intro course CS50, for which materials are available online, uses C as its primary language.