You're going to get 10 different answers from 10 different people on this one. They've all got their positives and their drawbacks. My personal background is in

You're going to get 10 different answers from 10 different people on this one. They've all got their positives and their drawbacks. My personal background is in PHP, which I've been doing non-professionally for years now, but I've recently made the switch to Ruby on Rails out of curiosity. If you have no programming background at all, then I reccommend doing a ruby on rails tutorial, a php tutorial with a framework like yii or code igniter, and a python tutorial and see which language makes the most sense to you, and then from there go deeper into studying one language or another.