... but not yet python:
https://developers.google.com/edu/python
It's the Google intensive two day seminar course.
The first computer I built used a CDP 1802 microprocessor. I hand-coded some software for that processor which was used in a commercial data logger (mostly military 
).
My first programming class was fortran. Then later I decided I loved pascal. It became the "hot" language for teaching. I have a bunch of pascal stuff for Apple II and early Mac computers, and turbo-pascal stuff too.
My favorite computer was the Atari 800. It was the first computer I owned that was useful as a word processor. That was when I switched from writing on Unix terminals at school to writing on my Atari at home. I had a modem too.
I know little or nothing about "the programming field." I've written code for clients under deadline and I've hated it. The worst situation I got myself into I had no clear boss. My "bosses" often wanted different, sometime incompatible, things. But I did I save their butts because when I got there I discovered they were keeping people's credit card info on their own server. Nobody small should do that. If something goes wrong you want it to be PayPal's or some other big provider's problem, not yours.
I have no idea what college is like now. For a long time Java was the shiny teaching language. I've never been fond of Java which makes Android an unappealing platform for me. I like how c has become a "universal assembly language" and I'm beginning to like python. But I'll probably never have as much fun as I did messing around on the Atari 800.
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