Here are a few steps you should take early on and programming languages that are best-suited for beginners. Before you learn a language, start with 'drag and drop' programming.

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

This introduces the idea of instantiation, a basic programming principle often difficult for beginners to grasp.