How would you rank these programming skills in order of learning them? [closed]

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As a general purpose programmer, what should you learn first and what should you learn later on?

Here are some skills I wonder about...

SQL
Regular Expressions
Multi-threading / Concurrency
Functional Programming
Graphics
The mastery of your mother programming language's syntax/semantics/featureset
The mastery of your base class framework libraries
Version Control System
Unit Testing
XML
Do you know other important ones? Please specify them...

On which skills should I focus first?

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