I spent hours and hours learning some basic Javascript, just so I could make online calculations. [URL=http://www.epourania.com/wallcalc/wallcalc.html]http://www.epourania.com/wallcalc/wallcalc.html
I shunned at the idea of trying to learn another language until I was comfortable with Javascript. The code that I had seen for PHP seemed too difficult for me to learn very quickly so I put it off.
After spending hours and hours trying to learn cookies so I could transfer information to another page, with very little luck, I decided to check out PHP, just to see how difficult it is.
Within an hour, I had a working PHP script.
The Lesson I used was from:
[URL=http://us2.php.net/tut.php]http://us2.php.net/tut.php
and it went surprisingly smooth.
I took a quick tour of PHP and now I wish I had learned it before working on Javascript. So any of you out there with a desire to learn Scripting, I recommend trying PHP first.