I really want to learn programming. I envy anyone that can do it and I would really like to learn.
The trouble seems to be that unless you know some basics of programming then it is very difficult to get the help you need as most online tutorials, or books assume that you have a basic understanding of it.
2 years ago I started a couple of websites with no knowledge of programming. It was PHP based and I used a package that was free to get going. All you had to do was install the script and you then had a fully functional site with no knowledge.
This script is great to modify but with no PHP knowledge it was impossible.
There seems to be thousands of people that understand PHP in the world. What do thy have that I do not - I do not consider myself to be that unintelligent - why can they learn and not me.
I believe that the hardest part of learning anything like this on your own is getting started. Sure the tutorials online do help but really only to learn how to write “Hello World” on a page - nothing useful.
Two years on and I hope that I have got over the initial hurdle. I can now write the most basic of queries within PHP and get my sites to display what I want - There is so much I do not understand and I cannot see how I will ever understand without having someone there that I can constantly ask questions.
If any readers here can help or advise how I should go about learning PHP or any other programming language that may be better then I would be most interested to hear.