Any suggestions for a start to programming?

[RabeaticSquirrel]

What I know about programming: ____________________________! That's it!!! Any suggestions for any understandable books or sites that I can read to start learning how to program? I've seen some different types of software packs at Best Buy that are suppose to give you a start. Anyone have any valuable feedback on those? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Shalmanese]

umm get started on visual basic since that is the easiest to learn, plenty of good books out about it and if you are a student, the academic version is not too expensive.

 

[Jumpem]

I started with Java. It's free to download from java.sun.com, and there are plenty of beginners books available for it.

 

[coder1]

Here's a thread that I gave a little info on the subject


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=346865

 

[ToXiCRaGE]

my bro did this:
basic>qbasic (same stuff)>visual basic>and now javan and visual C++

worked for him so i suggest u start with the basics and start with Q or Visual basic