The progression

How to get into the whole thing. You want to learn to be a hot shot programmer, but you know nothing about it at all. Or perhaps bits and peaces, but it doesn't fit together.

Everyone is different, and you'll hear different advice, but my recomendation is this.

First, get a blogger account. This is free through Google. You don't really need to know a thing to set it up. Then start to play with it. Set up RSS feeds, maybe place some adds. Start to look at the code, and get a feeling for how it fits together. You can break it, it's okay. It's for learning.

Blogging itself is fun, and can involve advanced programming stuff if you take it all the way.

Then next thing is to learn HTML. This is the mark-up language used by browsers to understand what to write on your page. We'll talk more about it later.

Then get into more web stuff, like CSS and so on.

Now your have had a feel for a bit of how programming might feel, but you haven't really programmed yet. Now it's time to change gears. I recommend the next step should be learning Python. I have made my way well into Python and will share what I have learned.

Then, I think the next step is to learn C++. This is really the serious stuff. From there you really can learn anything.

So, if you want, you can take a wonder with me and this blog, while you work your way through this progression.