What kind of programming are you going to do? Web, desktop? What are you doing it for? career, hobby? If you are doing it for personal enrichment then get an ar

What kind of programming are you going to do? Web, desktop? What are you doing it for? career, hobby? If you are doing it for personal enrichment then get an arduino and learn embedded, embedded is far more rewarding than any other form of programming. If it is for money than web and mobile is where it is at and for web there is no better language to learn right now than Javascript. Get a Javascript book, a web server, and go to town.