Anyone good at computer programming? If I look up tutorials, I can't understand anything. I might if someone actually could explain things. Anyone know how they became so smart? Were they born with a superior mind? How did they evolve to understand things that would make most people throw up lava if you tried to explain to them? Most people would get a glare in their eye of a thousand suns of you tried to explain these things. Most people's veins would sense a feeling of untold evil if you showed them a screen full of symbols and letters that are moving very fast and you can still read it.
Tutorials weren't too helpful for me until I began to make up small tasks that I wanted to accomplish. In a sense, I reversed the process, or at least how it normally goes: I did something in order to learn the basics of something rather than learning the basics of something before trying anything at all. For example, I decided to work on a simple curse filter in order to learn about string handling; I knew very little initially, but as I struggled, I had a better idea of what it was that I didn't know, and it was then that turning either to references or tutorials was of help to me.
Once you are decent in one language, learning other languages becomes much, much easier. I can't really point to any particular language tutorial and say, "Read and you will become good!" Stackoverflow was (and still is) the most helpful site for programming; language references are something you should become comfortable with given the large standard libraries of "modern" languages.
Try to think of fun stuff to work on, even in the beginning, but advance in small steps. I'd recommend trying out Python as Java can be confusing with the "public static void main" stuff at first. Good luck!
