NJ5 on 09 July 2008
I suggest starting with (by today's standards) a more bare-bones language like C. It's powerful enough to do anything you want, yet there isn't much syntax for you to learn.
Buy a good C programming book, and when you can code some basic algorithms with loops, recursion, arrays and structures, you can move on to C++, Java or C#.
At some point, you'll have to learn the really important part of programming, which is data structures and algorithms.
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