I hate that some universities teach dynamically typed languages as first language in their curriculum. I think for CS students the first language should be as "strict" (not in the mathematical sense) as possible, so the student is forced to think very carefully what is going where. This is of course a controversial opinion, especially among proponents of SICP (which is, in my opinion, not a good book for beginners. Yes, downvote me).

(Obviously, I am talking about CS students here, not about the general public who just want to learn what writing a program means)