Yup, just try it, make the board and how to check if someone won or if it's full, figure out how to get input from the user. Then if you like the language move

Yup, just try it, make the board and how to check if someone won or if it's full, figure out how to get input from the user. Then if you like the language move to implementing a simple ai (start with randomly putting pieces ;p). By then you should know a good chunk (IO, loops, built in data structures ...)