I want to learn how to program!!!

[anyone_8542]

Hi All,

As the title says i'd like to start doing some programming.
Start small, maybe a simple website and then work my way up to somethng more complex.

Only trouble is, i've no idea where to start.

Any recomendations of books, websites, what language to start with etc would be a great help.

Many Thanks in advance.

 

[VirtualAdept]

I think... free-ed.net has a few bits on html that are worth a look.

 

[AHarvey]

I'd suggest 3 books for a total noob.

Head First Web Design
Head First HTML, CSS & XHTML
Head First PHP & MySQL

Very good books for a noob. Although, if you can learn from PC based information you need to look at html & Css for the basics, then look at moving out to PHP, Javascript or Flash

w3schools & htmldog are good places to start.

Get yourself some free webspace with 000webhost. Download filezilla, this is an FTP program that allows you to connect to and upload files to your webspace. You will also need something to write the code in, I would recommend Notepad++ as its basic, does syntax highlighting and is easy to use.

Then, start trying things out