Help me with DSA

I am going into my 2nd year and my university expects me to learn DSA of my preferred language.I know a a bit of Python and Java and from one of my seniors gave me an advice to learn DSA with C++ so that I can get to learn about manual memory management and learn the fundamentals compared to Java.And I am not trying to do any CP and also for my university sem I was thinking about attending the questions in Python as they are short to write and also in an exam po