Application of Programming

Hello everyone,

I am attempting to teach myself programming and am at a bit of a loss as to who to apply any of what I am learning. I read through books and they teach the theory of the code, but I fail to grasp its actual application. I would like to code professionally but I have no concept of what it actually entails.

I am a "hands on" type of learner and come to you all looking for some guidance as to how to develop into a diverse and skilled programmer. Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.

the easiest way to start programming is to do web programming and PHP is the defacto standard in web programming. You also have to know html/css and javascript. The nice thing about web programming is you get immediate visual response, whereas you will spend months making stupid console programs in most any other language. Once you get good at web programming you can start making money making websites for people.