I just got A+ certified

I know you'll all scoff and regard me as a scrub, but I'm making /prog/ress towards achieving Satori. It's not much, but it's a start.

I've messed around with Ruby before, but what language would be good to take up seriously and learn in-depth? The most I've done with Ruby is make some shitty text-based games.

I'm not sure if this will impact your suggested language for me to learn, but I'm currently enrolled in CIS introduction classes for next semester, planning on getting into database administration later on. However, I want to learn how to program as a hobby.

I know I'll have to learn SQL some time in the near future, but I'm wondering if there's anything else I should take up.

In before elitist sages, conflicting suggestions, and inane comments.

>>13
You're an idiot. Not just for your specific suggestions, but also for the general idea behind them.

Before anyone should be thinking of learning a language specifically to be able to do something in some domain, they should be learning languages that will broaden their perspective and help them be a better all-round programmer.
>>1 clearly isn't at the point where he should be focussing on specific domains yet.

>>1, learn Python or a Lisp, then Haskell, then C. Only then can you afford to start thinking about specific domains.