[sixtofour]

"I forgot to mention in my comment that the order I listed the languages would be good way to learn them."

Ah. I kind of agree with you now. I personally might still shy away from PHP, but I have nothing against it (I didn't mean to imply that it's useless). It would depend on the conversation I'd have with the hypothetical student, but by that time (after learning Python), the student could probably decide for themselves.

EDIT: changed parenthesized comment from "after learning a more general language like Python" to "after learning Python"

[chirp]

Yeah, I agree that learning Python would be a good first step. Thanks for taking the time to reply.