There seems to be a thought that C (rather than C++) is a hard language to learn. Once you have learnt one procedural language then the next becomes easier to learnas you have learnt the basics of how to beak a problem down already.

C is a totally portable language, to even more platforms than Python and in keeping with the original Unix thinking as that was what it was designed for: to write Unix in.

Syntax for Pyhton, Java and C++ are al based on the C language so you won't be wasting your tme there either.

The other big advantage is that C is not an object based language like the others so that is one less thing to get your head around. Once you have C down pat then you can tackle the object orientated concept with a small extension to syntax.