There is one thing that PHP has going for it as a first language: You can do "cool" things with it almost immediately. It is like making an animated drawing bac

There is one thing that PHP has going for it as a first language: You can do "cool" things with it almost immediately. It is like making an animated drawing back in the day in [whatever version of] Basic. Most into tutorials start "this is an int, this is a char, this is a variable, etc." Before you even get to anything interesting you are already dozing off. With PHP, however, you can hack together your own blog/website show it to your friends and say "I made this." The ability to say "I made this" is the best feature of any language, but usually it is a pretty inaccessible feature for the beginner.