I would start with Python/Django (for a faster start) or Java (for a stronger foundation if you don't need to be working right away).
The JavaScript world seems to be moving more towards templating (e.g. Dust) and other tactics to focus more on the graphic design work for the browser tier and keep the bulk of the programming on the server tiers, so I'd be reluctant to invest in that language right now.
For Python make sure you're learning 3.x, for Java make sure you're learning good fundamentals of Computer Science and the Java version taught is 6 or 7.
For Mike's situation I'd recommend something with a fast start, and Python/Django or Dust/JS are very good choices in that regard.
On 08/19/2012 03:30 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Most places I visit use web-based applications more and more often. And, in
> such places, JavaScript developers seem to be in short supply.
>
> Alan
>
> On Aug 19, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> thank you so much for your help. What would you suggest as a marketable
> language for me to learn?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://codeacademy.com has free classes for much of the basics in
>> several languages. They just added Python. Look to see if that fits
>> your learning goals.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering..... how do you find the free kindle books and I was
>> hoping to find a book that would teach programming from the ground up with
>> exercises and stuff like that. Free is about all I can afford with two kids
>> and being on disability and all the crap that is going on in my life! WHat
>> is a good language to start learning? I remember that a friend of mine who
>> went to Devry in 91 the first language he learned was Pascal. Is that a
>> good language to start with or should I rather start with something more
>> useful? Like maybe Java or Javascript or would you recommend something
>> else? This is going to be completely a home study thing. I do have a Python
>> book for python2.1 by Deitel, Liperi, and Weidermann (copywrite 02). I
>> think I will work out of that unless you think it is too old. Please don't
>> ask what I want to do with whatever I learn because right now I don't know
>> what the possibilities of learning a language (be it Python, DHTML, or
>> whatever). You know what, I also
>> have a DHTML book (<c>1997) anda java book (<c> 96) that are really old.
>> Do you think I should use them? Yeah, I'm thinking HTML and Java are more
>> practical. I can offer to program things for people. What do you think I
>> should do?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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