I am totally new to programming as though I have my PhD as a molecular biologist for the last 10 years. Can someone please tell me: Would it be too hard to handle if I enrolled simultaneously in C++ and python? I am a full time employee too. Both courses start and finish on the same dates and is for 3 months. For a variety of complicated reasons, this fall is the only time I can learn both languages. Please advise.
GillingsT
Update:
A little more detail about myself: as I said I did a PhD in Molecular Genetic. I now wish to be able to obtain programming skills so that I can apply it to do bioinformatics- like sequence manipulation and pathway analysis. I was told that Python is great for that but our course does not cover basics for beginners. I approached a Comp Sci Prof. who suggested that I learn C++ first before learning Python. So I got into this dilemma (added to other logistics).
You'll get holes in the head.
Python's data structures and memory management are radically different from C++.  
Whichever language you "get" first, you'll love.  The other you'll hate.  Indeed, you'll be confused at the weird things one language lacks that the other has.  One language will be reasonable, logical, unsurprising.  The other will be a mess of ad-hoc decisions and quirks.
If you learn one all the way through -- by itself -- you'll probably be happier.  
I find that most folks can more easily add a language to a base of expertise.  
[Not all, however.  Some folks are so mired in the first language they ever learned that they challenge every feature of a new language as being nonsensical.  I had a guy in a Java class who only wanted to complain about the numerous ways that Java wasn't Fortran.  All the type-specific stuff in Java gave him fits.  A lot of discussions had to be curtailed with "That's the way it is.  If you don't like it, take it up with Gosling.  My job isn't to justify Java; my job is to get you to be able to work with java.  Can we move on, now?"]
C++ and python simultaneously. Is it doable