The place to start really depends on what you are interested in. If you already know you want to do a bunch of web programming just start out with javascript.

If you think you might go on to do lots of types of programming then learning python is a great place to start

Check out reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer if you want interesting things to work on them. A lot of those tasks are not so simple that they can be done in a couple of hours, but not so long as to be crazy hard.

I was a big fan or this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/3fva66/201...