Choice of programming language for learning data structures and algorithms?

Question

Which programming language would you recommend to learn about data structures and algorithms? There are some books out there that are programming language-agnostic (written from a Mathematical perspective, and use pseudocode). If I learn from one of these, I would like to choose a programming language to code and run the algorithms in. Setting aside personal language preferences, which one is best for this purpose?

Answer 1

There's no real best choice for DSA, because so much of it is not language specific. Personally I would recommend Python because it's easy to write code for and is well documented. If you're more comfortable in C++ or Java, either of those are good choices as well. (All 3 of these languages will surely have resources specific to them for DSA as well). Whatever language you're the most familiar with is probably your best bet, but if it were me, I'd go for Python.