Python

As mentioned in my purpose post, I will be hopefully teaching myself (read: reading books about and asking for help from others on forums) the Python language. I believe that it is technically a scripting language. I'm opting to learn it over (or just before) Perl because it has a more rigorous syntax and promotes well written code with comments. I also want to use it because it is cross-platform so I should be able to write programs/scripts for most operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS). I would eventually like to write or improve a program for my gaming group. We'll see how well that goes. For now I'm starting by looking at tutorials...for non-programmers, because even though I've had a few years of using Microsoft's Visual Studio (Visual Basic Language), a semester of C++ in college, and some experience with HTML (which while not 'programming' is still learning to use a language so I count it), it has been a while since I have done any of them.

So I'll be looking here to start.

As well I'm thinking about picking up a python book or two from Amazon.