Most intern resumes that I&#x27;ve seen recently have Java, Python, and Javascript on them. A few add C&#x2F;C++ to those. I&#x27;ve only seen one with anything approaching a functional language (OCaml).<p>Personally I think Python, Java, or Javascript are good places to start coding. Python has the slight edge because there are a lot of good educational kits (Raspberry Pi as an example) that really make learning to code fun although the whole 2.x&#x2F;3.x mess muddies the water a bit.<p>I think once the tooling gets a little bit better then Haskell could easily be added to that list. It&#x27;s close but not quite there today.