=( A long long time without process to LHC@Home.

I am not sure about this, but i think that a Japanese method for Math teach called Kumon is a good way of improve math skills in our students. I am a undergraduate student in electrical engineering and Kumon helps me with math difficulty that a carry since high school. The method show to the student that math is a continuous and simple learning. If u're interested, check about it.

I think that you can keep the simplicity. Look, the language it's just the tool, so, you can choose the tool more comprehensive and specialize yourself as u need. For example: C and C++ are two good comprehensive languages that can give to you the bases of programming and let's you to get familiarized with important concepts that are applicable to the other languages. Concepts like OOP (with C++) can be used with other OO languages like Java and C#. The C language it's universal, syntax and other features are used by almost other all languages (python, perl, php)... and the particularities you will discover by yourself.