Things I think may help random people who come across this page and who are interested in programming...
I'll update as I see fit
http://www.perl.org/
opening to the Perl community, it will show you how to install Perl on windows
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
same, a lot of people are talking about this language, however I don't know much about it but do know a few sites are using it and doing some pretty cool stuff (twitter for example)
http://www.php.net/
php is one of the biggest languages at the moment, almost every major website is or has some pages using it
http://www.python.org/
as far as ive seen python is used in many web apps
http://www.cplusplus.com/
good starting language, very very powerful though(as are all the C's)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336809
I haven't worked with C# at all so I cant say much about it
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
A forum I have found very helpful.
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/forum/74-web-development/
almost every language is based off of or uses HTML in some way, it should be the first language you learn(in my opinion)
