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I program in Perl. I started using something very simple like ActionScript. I would suggest starting with something simple like javascript because it can be debugged from any web browser.  In fact, Firefox has a "scratchpad" under "web developer" menu.

You can do linear programming but also some object oriented programming with javascript. Once you have gotten some experience you may try C or Perl as it will become more and more similiar between various Language Programming concepts.