Dude it came off pretty condescending.

Either way, no hard feelings. Best of luck to you.

Sorry man, it's been a long day and you're right, I didn't read the post all the way through.

However, you don't actually have to be an asshole, either. You may have gotten a bunch of responses, but I am just a guy who was trying to help you out. Best of luck to you.

It really depends on what type of programming you're wanting to get into. If you want to build web-based things, you can easily pick up the frontend stuff like HTML and CSS, and then start working with JavaScript (and JQuery). PHP is super easy once you're familiar with JavaScript, and most of the web uses PHP in some form or another (CMS's like WordPress and Joomla are built almost entirely on PHP).

If you're wanting to do stuff like app development, check out Java and / or Python. Ruby on Rails is alright but probably not great for a beginner, but you can build some awesome stuff with all 3 of those.

I would avoid stuff like C/C++ until you've cut your teeth.

Ha, I was mostly just joking around, XKCD always has something snarky to say about almost anything. That said, Intercooler looks pretty interesting, I'll probably check it out this weekend while I'm playing around with the Voat API.

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