The Interest

I know this will not be a simple task I'm about to embark on. I'm currently 23 and doing the Pure Sciences, I never knew I would be so interested in computer programming say five or so years ago. There was nothing to me like the Biological and Chemical Sciences, in high school Chemistry Biology and Physics were my first loves that was the route I took and am still on to this day until about a couple of months ago. I picked up the interest I now have in programming by fooling a round with a web-page I had saved. I went to VIEW then SOURCE and there it was a couple of almost indecipherable series of characters that sparked the interest I now have in the inner workings of a computer and how a web page was rendered. I did some reading up on HTML. In about two weeks I could write a webpage in Notepad, that was just so much fun, there the interest in the whole programming was started.

There is one problem now, I do not think HTML and XHTML is a good enough "language" to have to consider one's self a "programmer" per se - it does in fact teach you a thing or two about some basic rules of programming like syntax and so on. Therefore if you are a slow learner like myself then that would be a really less challenging way to start!