I am taking the plunge and plan on taking my first steps into programming, and I think by talking with a few people that Python is a worthy language to learn. I know a lot of people say emacs or even ...

I am a coding newb. My background is relatively limited: a CS class in high school (Pascal) nearly two decades ago and in the last decade moderate tinkering with XHTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL. In the last 5 ...