Grace, in looking through this thread again, something occurred to me in attempting to answer your request.
As some have pointed out here, the concept of “programming” has changed drastically over the past 10 or so years, with the move from applications programming, particularly mainframe applications, to web development and object oriented programming.
As someone who was trained at Cope in Cobol, I had to find a new route as the needs in my field evolved. I’ve pretty much carved out a nitch for myself.
What you don’t state is how much you know about computers, what your experience is, and how tech savvy are you? Personally, I don’t care for C#/java and other type programming (ie, object based) because I’m much more business oriented, but you really need to evaluate yourself and your skill sets before anyone can really give you a fair answer.