awesomeevan

I'd recommend Python. Syntax is not complex and it's very readable. PHP and JavaScript others are typically web focused, whereas Python is general purpose in comparison.

I'd agree. Visited as a teenager and they're all so nice!

Not personally, but it's been mentioned by people I've worked with who day it has good tutorials!

The thing to understand about programming is that it can be quite abstract at first, but in the end it's a culmination of thought patterns and concepts that combine to allow a person to write a program that can do multiple things to produce a meaningful result.

For example read files and combine the text in all of them to discover how many words they contain or some similar problem. This requires an understanding of computer input/output, the programming interfaces used to read files, basic programming structures such as for loops, and logic to parse the files. For someone who has been programming for a while that task is relatively trivial to get a pretty accurate result, but for a beginner it would seem like a huge task since they don't yet understand all the concepts I listed. Programming is not just syntax, it's about understanding and dismantling problems and having knowledge of how computers and networks work.

It's very very rewarding work, once you get over the early difficulties!

How long do you estimate the journey will take?