anyone have any worthwhile suggestions?

I know I'm going to sound like an idiot but here it goes can anyone point me in the right direction for learning the simplest basics for writing code, changing code, and hacking? I've seen a lot of different threads saying to start somewhere and almost everyone of them is different I only ask because I don't want to start wrong get used to it then come back to find out that I've been doing it all wrong and have to start over. or if you have the time and patience could someone try to teach me? thanks for all the help -Ju5t1n

Start with simple programming such as HTML and CSS, it will get you in the mindset of writing code, from there spread it out, start using JavaScript, using the aforementioned 'codeacademy.com' very, very good.

Once you learned Javascript, you'll have a better understanding of loops and if statements for example, then from there you can pick another language, Object Orientated is generally very popular with languages such as Java and C++ available to you, both very widely used. Minecraft being the best example of Java and Linux being and example of C++. All these tutorials are available online for free and of course books.

Check out w3schools.com for HTML, CSS and Javascript, not always the best website, but great to get you going.

Hope this helps, sorry for the wall of text.