Flavius_Belisarius

Hey guys, I'm new here, so sorry in advance if this thread has been made before. I'm a complete neophyte to the world of programming, and I want to learn a language that will be useful to me in the future. I've heard that C++ and Java are the most popular, but my uncle told me that learning assembly language at some point would be very useful. From what I understand, assembly language is a low level language, so I would think that I should learn assembly first and then move on to other languages, to establish a firm ground in programming. Am I wrong? I really have no idea.