While I learned a little BASIC as a kid, my first programming language was C, in my 20s. I learned it using the Kernighan & Ritchie book. I can't even remember

While I learned a little BASIC as a kid, my first programming language was C, in my 20s. I learned it using the Kernighan & Ritchie book. I can't even remember where I got a C compiler from. Probably a DOS freeware ftp server over dial up. I eventually got Linux installed (probably from a cd-rom included with a very thick book I bought in person at a book store) so I could use gcc. If I can learn it under those conditions, you can totally do it! You've got Stack overflow! I think all you need to really learn programming is a motivation. I was generating rendering instructions for some animation program at the time (ray tracing) and so it seemed like the best thing to do to get the job done. I feel in love.