I really like ruby as well but my experience has been if he's planning
on pursuing some type of CS degree he'll definitely need to know java
and C++ for 90% of the programming related classes, so that might be a
better place to start.

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:21 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On May 19, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> 
> > I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about  
> > this.
> >
> > A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a  
> > summer course in programming. His goal is to become a business  
> > applications programmer.
> >
> > He asked me what language he should start with. I'd guess the  
> > prgramming landscape is changing with more services going into the  
> > cloud.
> >
> > Joseph, Hans, Charles I'm sure you have opinoins and I welcome  
> > anyone elses.
> >
> > My friend, Ian isn't on the list so I'll point him to gmane.org to  
> > follow the discussion.
> 
> Ruby.
> 
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