Once you learn about the way basic PHP works you can jump into JavaScript and then JQuery. Sqlite is a great thing to match with your php knowledge, at the End of the Larry Ullman text there is step by step instructions on how to create, write into, read from and update databases. If your scripting for web you'll have almost all the tools in your toolbox to create some great pages. -HTML/CSS to structure and style -PHP to validate your own forms -Sql Databases to hold info from your forms -JScript/JQuery to streamline content and make your pages beautiful After you swallow all that information and decide "Yes, I like doing this" try getting into Object Oriented PHP. There's lots and lots of books that can help you get started programming, This is how I did it and I'm quite happy with how my programming skills are progressing. The best way I found to learn was by attending classes, but.... If you don't feel like forking out the high price for text books and college tuition you can always buy a few months of lynda.com and check out the awesome professional tutorials.
On the other hand, a lot of people give up pretty quickly when they begin with something really hard without much immediate reward. I would suggest against starting with C or even C++.
C# is definitely my suggestion for a starting language. It's more modern than Visual Basic, a lot of companies are using it, it's easy to use because a lot of the hard stuff is built in, and when you're ready to switch to something more powerful, like C++, it's not that much of a jump. Also, you can download Visual C# Express for free, and it's not that much different than the full version in Visual Studio.
