You're on the right track; just jump right in. I would suggest focusing on one scripting language to start though. Python or PHP would be fine choices. I learn

You're on the right track; just jump right in. I would suggest focusing on one scripting language to start though. Python or PHP would be fine choices. I learned on PHP and still use it. If I was starting now, I probably would have gone with Python, but you're fine either way. Facebook is built on PHP. Google uses Python a fair bit. There's nothing wrong with learning programming on a Windows machine! People who are avoiding doing real work quibble about these things. Especially for web development, it doesn't matter. (If you want to get into native iOS dev, you should get a mac) Choose a simple project and learn as you go. Some ideas: a todo app that connects with a database, a journaling app that writes to text files and let's you do simple edits, something else you're interested in.