A lot of questions like these catch flack because once you have some good experience programming, you forget what it was like to be lost in the beginning. Aski

A lot of questions like these catch flack because once you have some good experience programming, you forget what it was like to be lost in the beginning. Asking a question like "How do I learn to program?" Is a lot like asking "How do I use a hammer?" The answer, it depends on what you're building. I'm self-taught, mostly in Python, but in other languages as well. The trick is to find something to fix. Find something to build. When you're building something it changes your mindset and you start learning instead of memorizing. Head over to https://www.oppslist.com/ https://www.oppslist.com/ and find a "problem" that you find interesting. Then hit codecademy and stack overflow to help you get enough syntax down to start writing something. For python, the https://reddit.com/r/learnpython https://reddit.com/r/learnpython community is extremely helpful and has few trolls :) Your laptop need not be fast for programming. You could do it on a chromebook and have much success. Especially in the beginning.