A question about learning to program

[Moots]

Okay so I am a single dad, juggling two jobs and I want to get into programming on my spare time.

I don't have time to take classes so my only option is learning online/books.

I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion on what would be a good language to start with, and if they know any good books I could look into.

Thanks in advance.

 

[CockroachMan]

Pascal is a good language to learn, it was made to teach people how to program, not very useful to make real programs, but still a good start.. most good Computer Science courses that I know use it to teach the basics of programming..

If you want something more pratical, you could try Javascript, Flash (Actionscript) or Python.. those are cool to just "have fun"

 

[Jiggah]

My vote is Python. It's a very easy beginning language to learn to use or you can go with Visual Basic.

 

[Westside]

C# is something new to learn, but can be rather complex. Java was rather easy for me, but I don't really like it that much.

 

[Mangofett]

Python is easy just to play around with, and once you get a better understanding how everything works, try your hand at C/++