This tutorial attempts to answer the question that seems to be asked most days, here on AO:

What's the best programming langauge to learn?
It answers this question not by giving a definite answer (e.g. C++ is always best) but by giving a brief description of some of the most popular languages, and their uses as well as their estimated ease of use / learning.

Hope it's of use to someone!!

The tutorial covers:
->HTML
->JavaScript
->PHP
->Java
->Basic & VisualBasic
->C / C++