I would say that you should consider what you want to do programming-wise before you decide on what to learn. What types of software do you want to make ? .. and what parts of the software are you specifically interested in ?
I don't think it matters much what language you choose in the long run, but understanding programming paradigms is what's important. Once you grasp the difference in compiled programs versus interpreted 'scripts' and the difference in object oriented versus procedural programming, you'll be able to more clearly define what language(s) you are interested in. Although it seems like most languages are adding OOP features these days anyway. It's also important to learn the basic capabilities of each language. For instance, you can't use pure HTML to do math since it is just a markup language and cannot perform logic.
I think learning a simple scripting language is a good place to start. JavaScript is great for beginners and if you have access to a web server, PHP is a nice noob friendly language. However, it helps to learn things in the proper order. If you want to use PHP to pull and display stuff from your emu DB, first, you need to know a little bit about HTML. You can't write HTML with PHP if you don't know HTML in the first place. Then you probably need to know a little about SQL, so you can make PHP use SQL queries properly.
google up some tutorials and start coding. Aint nothing to it but to do it!
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