Dear lj

[jossish]

If your work were going to pay for you to go and learn a programming language so you had some kind of technical knowledge that would help you with managing IT projects and potentially with moving up the career ladder within IT, what would you learn? Bearing in mind you only have some feeble HTML and CSS knowledge and have struggled to pick up anything else through lack of good teaching & understanding.

Comments

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Perl. Definitely not PHP :)

[grendelyn.livejournal.com]

Alas, I wouldn't learn to program beyond a bit of SQL or whatever -- I don't. Learn to use Eclipse and software management tools, things like that. Also-- make work pay.

[andrew-j-w.livejournal.com]

I would without question say Python. However, it really depends on what sort of work your company does and what their main language is. If your company actually does Visual Basic work then, as your manager suggests, that's what you should learn.