Programming Languages

Start with something easy and then push into something harder. Programming is not difficult to grasp, but it takes alot of time to get all the concepts behind everything down. To start with download the "perl" language from activestate.com or "java" language from java.sun.com and get some programs that have already been made to play around with. Once you feel comfortable enough move onto C programs. Get a GCC open source compiler and, again, use programs that already exist to project with. Once you understand the concepts of accessing the filesystem, accessing memory, etc you will be able to jump to other languages fairly easily. I think it is important to start with C because 1. it doesn't have nearly as many functions to remember as other classes, and 2. it will teach you all the important basic concepts in a straight-forward manner. You will probably want to go into .net or visual basic in order to make it easier to write your programs, but personally I never found a reason to leave C.