Toribash
Hi, name is Raven, I've started coding 5 years ago and I'm always trying to get better on what I do, got to learn quite a few languages over the time but the ones I'm more familiarized with are PHP, Java and C#.

What are some good languages and resources that beginners can use to get into it?

I'd recommend C# for starters, search for some beginners tutorial on YouTube and then, once you know at least the very basic of some coding, try to solve a common problem you or anyone has, sometime you'll get into questions, solve them somehow, ask someone for help or Google about it. Read some documentations and other peoples code, try to understand them and how they work.

Where have you applied this knowledge professionally or in your own time?

I'm one of the Toribash's forum developers, I do some freelancing jobs but most of my projects are just personal ones, 4fun, to help with something i must do or even just to learn.