Programming Beginner
Are you a beginning programmer?
There are some programming languages like Ruby and Python that are not too hard for beginners to learn. Of course you could dive right in to C++, but once you know one programming language it is much easier to learn a new one. A good beginner's programming book helps to learn programming fundamentals and you'll find many beginning programming books here that don't assume you know another programming language first. I will also update this page with beginning programming links and videos that ...

Just Enough Programming
Learning just enough about programming to do something useful...
While learning a language, paradigm, technology or tool perfectly is desirable if you are a professional programmer, what happens if you need the flexibility to be able to apply your knowledge to any language, paradigm, technology or tool? Answer - you come here. Where we give you just enough to accomplish something useful, but leave it to you to figure out if that's enough. We think it is; no use trying to paint the Sistine Chapel if all you want to do is make comic books, is there?

Computer Programming Languages @ Amazon.com
Knuth says programming languages are all alike (OK, he says they have several properties in common.)  Still, it is a lot easier to learn a second or "N+1th" language than it is to learn the first one. Many languages are available, each with strengths and weaknesses -- and fervent fans. Knowing what you intend your progams to do makes picking an appropriate language a lot easier.