Suggestion for Changes to the First Part of the Curriculum

[andycostintoma]

I would like to suggest a change to the first part of the curriculum. My proposal is as follows:

1. Learn to code in C -> focus on procedural programming, C is thought later in the curriculum anyway, so why not start with it?
2. Learn Shells and Terminals
3. Learn Git
4. C project
5. Object Oriented Programming in Java/C# -> Java/C# are widely used in backend development and are better at teaching OOP concepts than Python
6. Java/C# project focusing on OOP
7. Learn JS/TS -> you plan on teaching them anyway
8. Functional Programming in JS/TS -> JS/TS have better support for FP than Python (maybe use Ramda/Lodash/Effect-TS or similar for more advanced concepts)
9. JS/TS project using Functional Programming
10. Data structures in C -> learning how data structures are implemented from scratch
11. Algorithms in JS/TS
12. JS/TS Project using Data Structures and Algorithms
13. Learn garbage collection in C -> implement a simple refcounting and mark and sweep gc (last chapters from "Learn Memory management in C)

Thank you for considering my suggestions.