Daughter will likely take a community college class this summer (she is at mid-point of high school). Has no coding experience, and cannot fit a computer science class into her high school schedule next year (nor the next). She is in an FSAE club at high school (they are just starting out, it is not high pressure like more established clubs) and is in the engineering pathway in high school (consisting of 3 Project Lead The Way curriculum courses: she is about to complete course 2) and those include teaching her to use onShape to design things.
The mid-level state school universities she is aiming for seem to all have a freshman course that introduces the future engineers to programs, computer skills that engineers such as mechanical or civic (non computer engineer majors) might use.
Can you recommend a coding language class for her to take this summer? Is this still a thing with ai becoming more prevalent in many fields?
I think the purpose of this summer's community college class would be to lay a foundation so she is not one of the few students in her freshman engineering class who has never been exposed to coding and/or who know zero computer languages (sorry if I did not use the correct terminology, these are things I don't know). But if it could help her in FSAE or of course in a future internship or job during college or after college, that would be great too.
I see a lot of the nearby colleges have C++ or Python being offered. Which would you choose? Or another? Her math skills this summer will be completion of PreCalc. She is not taking math this summer.