First, find a problem or something you'd like to learn about. Me one day decides mp3 players are cool and should be hacked, searches around finds rockbox, lear

First, find a problem or something you'd like to learn about. Me one day decides mp3 players are cool and should be hacked, searches around finds rockbox, learned some C. Or me got assigned the task of interfacing off the shelf barcode scanner with orangehrm and OpenERP, mmmm definitely python there. Or when I was interested in cross platform compatibility and delved into java. Point is that languages are often specialized or different to themselves for different reasons, and you should keep that in mind when choosing.