If you're looking to learn it for any actual, practical application, e.g. any kind of development that will be deployed on the web My first Python program was

If you're looking to learn it for any actual, practical application, e.g. any kind of development that will be deployed on the web My first Python program was automating .csv creation based off of a bunch of arbitrary files in a folder. I did it as a marketing intern, after spending an hour convincing my boss that I could save the company literally tens of hours of time a month. I did it on a Windows XP box. A few months later, I changed my major to CS. If we want more people programming -- and being good at it -- saying 'hey use Linux lol' is not the way to go about it. Especially in a corporate environment.