assembly is a good first language if you have a simple instruction set or machine. When I saw new people learn java, easily the hardest initial bump to get over was "what the hell is public static void main(String[] args) ?" or "eclipse didn't build it for some reason"

Python is much easier to introduce someone to because there's no boilerplate and the tooling is very simple. Assembly on x86 machines is a royal PITA to set up, and you also need some kind of debugger to actively inspect the program counter and registers.

When I took Computer Organization & Architecture, they had us play around with MARIE[1] which really made assembly make sense to me. After that, I wrote an 8080 emulator and it made even MORE sense to me.

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[1] https://marie.js.org/