Well I began with QBASIC (Microsoft's version of BASIC) when I was about 11. I used it for all programs I made for 3 years. And in the summertime I made, on average, 1 program every night on my hard drive-less computer that I had in my room (I was addicted to programming&#33 But I did learn a lot from it I think (even though it teaches very bad programming habits that I think I still kind of have), and because of my age I might've not understood languages like C (actually I think I tried it and it didn't make any sense to me.) Fortunately I knew not to use GOTO and things like that.

Then I learned PHP and it is still my favourite language. A lot like C except without the annoying stuff like pointers and data types!

A year ago I wanted to make portable games for my Nintendo DS. I only had the equipment to play GameBoy homebrew so I had to learn assembly. I never learned it well enough to make something. But I think it really helped me with other programming languages (especially all the memory stuff you have to do in C.)

So now my languages are PHP for web programming, and C and Lua for making Nintendo DS homebrew games/programs. Except for QBASIC, I never really made anything for Windows/linux.

My DS homebrew is here - http://www.bio-gaming.com/jeremy/homebrew.html