dbob

Thanks for addressing my questions! Appreciated.

Thanks for pitching in. And yes, that's why I think I am placing safe bets with popular stuff like Ruby/Rails and Java.

I am actually quite eager to work on it and am not scared of spending 5+ years to get good at it. I just wanted to know whether my thinking of a good way to get into coding sounds okay. For example, I read that starting programming with C is not a very smart way to do it, as it is more complicated (low-level is the right term I think).

Could you please elaborate on your last sentence - do you mean that if go with Java, I should stick only with it, and not try to spread myself too widely with other langs? In other words pick one generel purpose lang?

Thanks for posting. The hard thing for me as someone that does not understand clearly what I am getting myself into is knowing that after X I do/learn Y. And I was afraid that if I finish X I might be at a dead end, e.g., not knowing what to do next. That's why I wanted have a clear idea of what would be a good set of programming skills for me to aim for from the start. Thanks again for the tip!