Table of Contents. What every beginning programmer should learn « Python Conquers The Universe. Are you the kind of person who enjoys thinking about this kind of stuff?
Then seek therapy immediately! Or, just for fun, consider this… A young programmer, fresh out of computer programming school and still wet behind the ears, asks you — tough old seasoned professonal software developer that you are — for suggestions for things that he/she should learn in order to become as tough, as old, as seasoned, and as professional as you. What do you tell him/her? Here is a jumbled grab-bag of concepts, jargon, ideas, resources (books), etc.
Groovy. Grails. Perl.