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Learning a language is not nearly as important as learning how to program, how to refactor code, analyze problems, present ideas in a logical manner, communicate with your peers, be thorough and complete in your thought process, develop your domain knowledge.

I have been developing software for many years and have learned and forgotten more languages than I can remember. For the most part, languages can be learned quickly, it's knowing what to do with those languages that takes constant attention.

If I was just starting out, I would learn how to develop applications for mobile devices. This is a pretty hot area right now and will be for some time. I think we are going through another paradigm change like we did when we went to client/server, then web based application, and now mobile.