I personally started with BASIC (primarily QBasic), which stands for eginners [A]ll-purpose [S]ymbolic nstructional [C]ode; a language created specifically to make computer programming more accessible. QB64.net freebasic.net QBasic The Wikipedia QBasic page is a great place to start.
Dink around with that for a month or so. Then I would suggest [turbo] Pascal. It steps things up and introduces a richer syntax as well as many other features/concepts that appear in more professional languages (such as C/C++). TurboPascal7
And finally, C. If you program in C++, you know (at least most) of C. To this day I use the two (C & C++) interchangeably. The C programming language is extremely concise (sort of short-hand Pascal) and allows the programmer to write code very close to the actual workings of a computer, all while offering the high-level simplicity of the "easy" languages. I have seen tutorials that claim to be C++, but in reality, they are almost 100% pure C... Here are the primary differences.
Dev-C++ : get version 5 beta (aka. 4.9.9.2). This is a complete, yet compact IDE. You can easily add libraries with DevPaks. It uses the GNU C/C++ compiler (gcc), which is my personal favorite compiler, and available on all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, DOS, etc, etc). There are other nice (freely available IDEs) that make use of the DevPak system, use GCC, and work on a variety of operating systems, including: Code::Blocks and wxDev-C++. You can also download just the latest GNU C/C++ compiler at MinGW.org.
There really is no magic bullet =) Just look for good online tutorials and ebooks for each language, and take baby steps!
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