What was your first programming language?

Took a class in pascal, then taught myself c++ by jumping into the half-life SDK.

As for java tutorials, it depends on how you learn... I tend to learn the best by taking apart existing projects/code and modifying as I need, learning along the way.

So for me, the best "tutor" for java, was minecraft (decompiled so I could modify/add plugins/etc) https://bukkit.gamepedia.com/Plugin_Tutorial