>I would recommend a 'fun' one like macromedia flash. he could post stuff on his website and get immediate "wow" responses from his friends. After that, I think java or Delphi are the first development languages he may want to learn. They are good for accomplishing many tasks and Delphi is a great 'gaming' development tool and it helps to know Java and Pascal too for college level courses later.
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No, no! Both my sons started learning C++ (not Visual) and I think it is good. Really they offen try some syntax seen from older boys and make errors, but I like C syntax and I think it is good language for starting programmers to relise base languaage structures.