Comment Re:Codecademy (Score 1) 183
For web development, I would absolutely agree. However, if they're not going into web development, then Javascript is a great place to start. I actually started out programming last January (2012) with Codecademy, and learned quite a bit about programming as a whole. I didn't bother with HTML, but with what I learned through Codecademy and Javascript, learning other languages isn't as hard as it would be otherwise.