Can someone help me get started on the road to becoming a programmer? All I need is a place to start so I can grow from there
Check out www.tizag.com has some good starter PHP tutorials. When you have learnt the basics move on to some of these results: https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...16,d.ZG4&fp=40f391f6da3e1fea&biw=1241&bih=584
How old are you? Do you want to stick to web programming (PHP, Java..) or you want to develop desktop apps as well?
You can try vb.net and start with their free version and that's the Express version. You can start looking around to few codes/projects from a1vbcode.com or similar websites. I learned programming through solving problems with my classmates before in college then I created solution for small businesses. So what I did, is find time to look for problems and provided them with a program/software created using VB.net. I always believe that as a programmer I don't need to know all corners of the programming language you like to use but only the basics. And I only learned the things that really matters to what ever projects I am into. Google is always been my friend ever since. Anyway goodluck and happy coding.
what you want success in your furture just software engineer or designer, I think HTML is important for both of parts..
if your looking to make cross platform apps then Java, if you want to do web development then PHP, If you want to do Front end web development then Javascript, HTML5 & CSS. If you are looking for a general Programing Language then Python,Ruby or c++ would do too. Program languages are created for different tasks, in the end you learn them all
what programmer do you want? whether desktop programmer, mobile programmer, or web programmer? for web development you can try www.w3schools.com