Any programmers in here?

[Dash87]

20. I learned in school - start with VB.NET like I did. It's the easiest to grasp.

Even if that's not the one you need (like if you want to make an IPhone App), it doesn't matter. It's the easiest way to grasp the concepts of programming. You can learn the language you need later and it will be easy. Once you know one language, you can learn any of them extremely easily (like a day, or not even) because the structures of modern programming language are fairly similar.

The first step is to grasp the concepts of programming - the what, where, and why. You need to understand how code is structured and why you structure it that way. Knowing the actual terminology is not important in the least bit (if at all) - you can just look the terms up when you need them. Don't even try to memorize them until you know the structure by heart and just want to be faster.

Start with a "hello world" tutorial. Move on from there and don't rely too much on tutorials. Playing around is half the fun and you'll learn faster.