What is the best way to learn computer progamming?

Question

I know absolutely nothing about computer programming, although I spend an enormous amount of time using my computer. I want to learn computer programming. So my question is: What would be the most useful programming language to learn, and where is the best place to start learning it? (I have a very slow internet connection, so please, no links to tutorial videos.)

Answer 1

Select a language. Then use it. Since you are on the Internet a lot, why not learn HTML, which is the language used to develop web pages?

You could start by opening a website, any website, though yahoo might be too difficult to start with, so open a common, ordinary, everyday site, like a newspaper (though even that's sort of hard) or the yahoo answers page (the page you're looking at right now).

Next, access the View menu and click View Source. This will open the source code for the site you're on. It will be a text file. That file is what is "run" to display the site.

Next, look through the code. Notice that there are commands (called tags), which are HTML commands (or statements) that look like this: . All files, well nearly all if they're done right, will start with a command, then an end head command, in between may be nested commands, like