The way to learn any language is to give yourself a project. Any project, it doesn't matter what. You will throw that 'learning one' away anyway, because the mo

The way to learn any language is to give yourself a project. Any project, it doesn't matter what. You will throw that 'learning one' away anyway, because the more-learned you will see how primitive it is, and rewrite it several times till you are (pretty much) satisfied with it. A simple enough project, but one that is sort of useful, is to use your own income/expenditure information to produce the sort of information that you (or your accountant) will require to work out your taxes. That's one of the projects I have used anyway. I first wrote mine in BASIC, then in COBOL, and my latest in a mixture of C and SQL.