Maybe 5 of the people who answered actually knows how to program. Just an educated guess.

^ I kinda wanna know what exactly supports this educated guess.

Streetlife, buddy, streetlife.

I would be more concerned with outsourcing... assuming he means learning to program as a career.

Hopefully no one uses C's pointers with C++ anymore. That just isn't smart.

I tend to do more pure C than C++ so I use them alot. (it's kind of a habit now)

but yes smartpointers are very handy for the new ones

like many others, I started with QBASIC, then some VB, then Java, C, C++, ASM (x86, HC11), perl, php, VHDL.

Then I started working and most of my programming was VBA macros and bash scripts.

Some russian variant of Basic was my first. Then GW Basic/QBasic/Pascal/C/ADA/Modula 2/C++/Visual C++/C#/PHP/VB.NET ...
Anyway HTML is not a programing language, but a markup language. It will not help you to learn other programming languages at all. It will help you only to learn other markup languages like XML

I first learned Basic on an old RM Nimbus back in 1989

then in Order

Modula 2
COBOL
Fortran
C
C++
Java

Of all of these Java has proved itself to be most useful.

One word of warning about C and C++

There tends to be a snobby attitiude about using C++ as a superior coding platform but nine times out of ten C will get the job done and will be quicker to code.