computer programming (software)? What and where can i learn the basics and to learn more? FYI i'm a NooB?

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You are never too old, but, it does help to search using a search engine. ~

It's not too late, but if you are serious you have to narrow your focus, at least to start. If you are doing it for your own pleasure than it obviously doesn't matter as much. Your age isn't as critical as your ability to commit time to the task.

I would advise you to check courses at your community college. Also, look at local user groups. They often have people who are eager to teach others to program. Another opportunity would be to find an open source project that might interest you. You might just start working on documentation or help files but it would expose you to programmers and demonstrate commitment while you work on your skills.

If you are very self disciplined and have some idea of what type of programming you want to do you can teach yourself with the proper books but you have to be careful not to develop bad habits and you probably should have some basic project ideas and be able to set deadlines.

There are so many languages (PHP, Java, C++, Visual Basic, Pearl) resources (books, classes, degree programs, web sites) and opinions (this language is outdated, this language is great/sucks, this language is better for learning, this one's not a real language) that if you don't select something narrow to start, you can easily get off track or misled.

well compare with most of younger people you are actually late some people start programming since 13 years old ,that's actually useless because they do nothing with theory parts just do codes like playing games so I suggest you to don't DO ANY PROGRAMMING unless you understand the theory part well if you know the theory part well then u can easily manipulate your codes well

example just get Inheritance ,in programming inheritance uses parent class and child classes lot so you can access to methods and properties of parent class through a child class it's the theory but you can also write codes without knowing what's going on but it's not recommended also you will be totally messed up when you are going to develop some big project ,also every language got almost same theory so if you know the theory side that got from any one language you can easily move on to any language ,it doesn't matter Java or C++

well this is your time and keep in your mind u don't need to learn every programming language

it's enough to know only one like VB.NET or C# ,I suggest you to start with C# because C# got simple syntax with VB.NET simple face so you can write programs fast ,then you can move to Advance programming language like C++ or infact if you learned C# well you can easily move on to any language

First learn C# along with learn programming concept (the theory side) basics -> then move on to C# advance -> then move on to any language

Java probably has the best compiler for windows. Eclipse is an awesome program. Eclipse can be used for other languages, but its mostly used for java.

Visual Basic.Net is nice if you want to mess with GUIs. It makes it easy to build an overall complete application.

PHP is a good server-side language.

First you have to figure out what kind of coding language you want to learn, there are many, C+, C++, perl, tcl, Java, etc... then buy some books that correspond to that language or take a programming course.