I know most people would probably call this a bad advice, but if the reason you want to start to learn programming is to develop websites, PHP would be the easiest way for you to start with, and really, when PHP starts being a 'bad' language for developing websites for you, you should be able to learn and switch to other language easily. But, if you just looked at web development as a starting point and plan to dive deeper in programming, Python is a great choice. It is a language that is widely used in many fields, not to mention the community support it has..