Don't forget Basic, visual or not ;) Matlab is also very popular in engineering. Personally, I started with toy programs in QBasic that an uncle taught me, the

Don't forget Basic, visual or not ;) Matlab is also very popular in engineering. Personally, I started with toy programs in QBasic that an uncle taught me, then playing around on the TI-80, then Matlab when I entered uni (first 'real' programming).