I definitely agree with finding something you <i>want</i> to build. One of my friends taught himself programming using me to bounce questions off of every now a

I definitely agree with finding something you <i>want</i> to build. One of my friends taught himself programming using me to bounce questions off of every now and again, and the hardest part seemed to be when he abstractly wanted to keep learning programming, but he was just too bored at the moment to keep going. Find something fun to build, the smaller the project the better. Keep working on it until you can't bring yourself to work on it any more, then repeat with a more ambitious project.