I am an experienced software engineer who loves to teach interested students at my leisure.
Before I became a Software Engineer I worked as a Computer Instructor for over 2 years in two different computer institute teaching students on Computer appreciation, introduction to programming language using C and fundamentals of programming languages like Java, C#, Javascript. During my years as a computer software development trainer or instructor one beautiful thing I learnt was in using C programming language as a kit starter to learn any programming language because to me I see C as a window to all programming language since all programming languages are built from the very fundamentals of C.
What this implies Is that I necessarily don't need to use C , but I just map out all the general fundamentals of any programming language and then use it to create a syllabus to help with the introduction to programming and then add a couple of fun exercises to help to stretch the learning muscles.