MattW,
Are you interested in programming languages so that you can write your own software? What is it you are wanting to accomplish with learning programming? Depending on what you are trying to do (write software, make better webpage, write mini scripts to do something quick... etc) it will vary what languages are good to start with.
If you want a fully fledged language, you can go with Java, C++, or something like that. You can develop fully functional applications with that. But that's very complicated.
If you want to make better web pages, php, javascript, html, css is good for that. It's quick, relatively easy to learn, and a good way to start.
If you want to write little mini scripts to do some sort of relatively small quick task, you can look into python or shell scripting, even perl.
So it depends on what you want to do. So what is it?
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