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Learning the basics of C/C++ is useful, but it's not really a language you need to write things in unless you're very concerned about performance. It's very easy to do something a little wrong and lead to memory leaks or undefined behavior. There's also a lot of extra boilerplate code you need to write, although in that regard Java is even worse.

Python doesn't have those problems, but is much slower (still very fast with a modern computer, though!). Despite that, Python is very popular both among hobbyists and in the software engineering industry. Development time is quick and there are a lots of useful libraries that can be installed and imported easily. So I'd definitely recommend learning it.