If you want to learn to program, and not to program for the web, then I'd say Javascript is a bad choice. Apart from his quirks, you can't really just learn Jav

If you want to learn to program, and not to program for the web, then I'd say Javascript is a bad choice. Apart from his quirks, you can't really just learn Javascript: you would learn HTML and CSS with it, it's overwhelming (compared to other languages). Personally I'd go with Python to learn the joy of programming, and then some C (or Rust) to understand which problems were lifted by the higher level language. Javascript is too useful in the Web to not learn it, and then go functional to open your mind. Well, it's a long road :-)