The title is a bit misleading :) I guess you don't want to hear about my experiences with GW-BASIC :P I think that, whichever choice you take, being motivated

The title is a bit misleading :) I guess you don't want to hear about my experiences with GW-BASIC :P I think that, whichever choice you take, being motivated and actually doing stuff will be the best :) You have to decide on what you want to do first (do you have a startup in mind? working as a programmer? why do you want to learn to program?). With programming, just taking classes definitely doesn't cut it, the joy is wanting to make the computer do something and overcoming the obstacles to get there (and hopefully getting several "aha" moments along the way). I think that if I had to start today, there are lots of awesome online resources (but I don't know them, so I can't recommend any). No idea about hacker bootcamps.