Mechanical_fish asked the right question: What do you want to build? Once you know what you can get passionate about, figure out what people commonly use to bui

Mechanical_fish asked the right question: What do you want to build? Once you know what you can get passionate about, figure out what people commonly use to build apps in that arena. Some suggestions: Rich media websites? Flash/Actionscript "Desktop-class" web apps? Cappucino or SproutCore Business web apps? Java or C#, SQL Aiming to work at a startup? Rails/Ruby or PHP, SQL Desktop apps? Objective-C or .NET, SQL Looking to expand your mind? Erlang, Lisp, Haskell, or OCaml Hardware or Operating Systems? C, C++ Hope that helps. This is by no means a complete (or even totally accurate) list, so others please jump in.