I started 'programming' when I was in my 3th year of secondary school (don't know how it is called in england). I wasn't that good in remembering formula's for physics classes, so I wrote a program...

The head - first series is incredibly easy to learn from. All books of O'Reilly actually in my opinion. As for starting language, try java (easiest in my opinion due to active debugger) or C#, and...