I use Python and JavaScript for pretty much everything, including our new Steemit related services (http://www.steemreports.com). Not sure about your experience, but Python is great at every level.
Over the last few years, I've found youtube tutorials for just about everything related to programming very useful. The biggest challenge in some ways is deciding which programming languages and tools to choose.
Good luck to you!
Python is for sure a strong language to know/master! I'm no expert at all, but people new to programming should not get stuck on what language to learn, but rather just go for it and start somewhere. The basic principals of taking human language and ideas, and turn them into computer language or functions, scripts etc. is half the battle!
I kind of agree, but do think for most people it's a good idea to start with a language that doesn't bore them, or make things so hard that they abandon programming.