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

[scaryjeff.livejournal.com]

I second this. Python is the way to go.

[ruggy.livejournal.com]

I'd agree if you're not doing anything too huge. It's popular and easy to pick up.

It's not really a programming language, but I found that knowing how to use regular expressions really helped in an office environment. It's amazing how much time people spend copying and pasting unnecessarily.