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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2262113" data-attributes="member: 945">Ok, so in another thread, we started debating programming languages.  It's an interesting discussion, but it was off-topic to the discussion at hand.  So, as it turns out, my sister just sent me this:Steven is my nephew. He's a junior in high school. He's been taking a vo-tech class that covers repairing computers and whatnot. He put together his own computer, buying the parts here and yonder to get what he wanted. So, I guess he's yearning to learn more, and so his mom (my sister) asked me for advice.I ended up telling her that there were a lot of options available. I felt like that, in general, programmers are kind of a dying breed, since so much seems to be getting off-shored, but that web-development was a good start. I recommend that he learn html and maybe php (admittedly I know very little about what php is, but it seems like maybe a good start). Learning java on your own sounded challenging to me, and I'm not sure there is even really all that much demand for it in the workplace. I think .net or C# might be a better option here. Obviously learning any database skill or something like C on UNIX is really hard without access to corporate technology. Yea, he could install Linux, which I didn't think of until now. That might be a good start, and give him a good intro into UNIX, since it's basically the same thing.Anyone else have any thoughts on what he should try to learn?</blockquote>

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