Our DD did a Python class at 9-10 with AoPS I can recommend it.

Python is unexpectedly H-U-G-E right now too.

A lot of current data science and machine learning development is being actively done using it to select investments by companies == bigBuxxx.

I think that hardware is so cheap nowadays that Python's inefficiencies are more than compensated by its ease to learn and the number of solid libraries out there.

Become what you are