by WallShadow on Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:42 pm
([msg=65705]see Re: Very new.... Advice?[/msg])
I agree with the opinion that everyone should know HTML, and HTML is a good way to learn to indent code.
But I have to disagree in the idea that HTML is a good starting programming language. HTML is a markup language; it is good for beginners to learn it for syntax and style purposes, but I can't say that it's a programming language worth learning first. It doesn't teach anything about variables, control structures, functions, and OOP. The only way you could learn that from HTML is if you go into embedded JavaScript programming. And that is still far off.
I personally started off with Lua, a very high level and very fun scripting language and I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into programming, however there are many other good languages to start off with.