Learning how to read and write code and program? I'd love to learn but have no idea where to start. This would have to be entirely self taught and practiced as I have no time to take classes. Thanks.

If you know nothing about programming, khan academy is a good place to start. It's not really a programming language (it's basically a very high-level javascript), but it will help you understand the basics.
https://www.khanacademy.org/cs

After you have a basic understanding of programming, you should learn a language.

Java or C# are good languages to start with because they're fairly easy to learn and you can transition between them (and C++) very easily.

I don't recommend starting with Objective-C, VB, or Javascript because they have very unique snytax and its hard to transition to other languages from them.

The best way to learn, imo, is to watch videos on youtube and read a book (and do all the assignments)

if you didn't google this first, you won't learn to program

Utilizing google the first time as a programmer is like utilizing wolfram alpha the first time as any math-based science major.

I don't know man.. I used Altavista or whatever when I was 10 and making my first website, why is it a weird thing to use search engines to learn programming in the year of 2013 if it wasn't in the year of 2001?

Wolfram alpha isn't weird!

No one in my math classes used Wolfram Alpha :-(

This post was edited by eagl3s1ght on Nov 10 2013 01:52pm