LPT

It's not even hard or useful. Goodluck, and it's a major waste of time.

Just saying learning C++ first teh downgrading to Java would be much better

Java is useful in the long run for employment in multiple job fields, as a huge amount of "appliances" and such run on java.

As for my opinion? C++ is also useful, if not more so if you plan on working in specialized fields.