I want to start learning programming. What should I start with?

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I asked this question on yahooanswers and people were saying BASIC. There seems to be alot of programmers on Vgchartz so could anybody tell me where to start and how to learn by myself. I just want to make little programs and maybe some games. Nothing really big. I've been wanting to do this for months now just didn't have enough time to learn.