ctrlaltChris

Alright, I'm going to give this kid some advice. It doesn't matter. Any of it. The language doesn't matter. The understanding of concepts you get from a language matters. I'm a back-end developer on servers and web applications and dabble in Android applications (Java, Android uses the JVM, Java Virtual Machine, to execute most apps, though Android does support C++ though it's not recommended by google.) When you think programming, it's a big world. There's Haskell, Perl, Python, Java, C++ and C, Go, etc etc. But most of this doesn't matter because what you learn in Java or Python can be applied to something like C (Both of the languages have roots to C). What matters is the concepts of programming, syntax is what you have to learn afterwards. Along side with frameworks and libraries. If you really need to choose, I would go with something that can be used in the frontend and backend world of programming like javascript. Node.js for backend and Angular.js for the frontend, which are both "frameworks". Learning javascript in general is a good idea as it's used everywhere, like every site you've been on has had js. Now where to learn these you may ask? Don't do codecademy, for the love of god don't do it. It's just shoving syntax into your head and that's about as far as it goes for learning. Books, books are usually the best. They may be boring for some people but they can really help explain the concepts needed to further yourself as a developer. The biggest collection of books on different languages I know is right here: resrc.io/list/10/list-of-free-programming-books/ If you need me, get me on twitter @nimsub or PM me. You're young but you can do it. The best start young and then after high school (hopefully you graduate) you can focus on contributing to projects and build a portfolio. Even better, start now. Even if it isn't programming, ask around projects on github or other places to see if you can help. Best of luck to you! (Also, Python has a calculator built into it, as most langauges do. Though harder equations may have to be further worked upon in code.)