Hey Charli, why don't you try to make a simple game where you have to make a guy and move around? Just use @ or some other character for the guy. If you have trouble making this, I could give you some code for it and explain how exactly you would make this.

The other posters have good advice. You need to learn by doing. Set a simple goal for yourself. Make a console-based program with a text user interface. Then make a graphical program and make tetris or something.

Try writing code and learn just what you need to achieve those goals. Actually creating something is 100 times more educational than just reading about it.

After you've done some coding, you might find that your program get too long and complicated, and you can read some more on how to structure programs. Then go out and practice it.

For me, it has generally been a read, code a whole bunch, understand, read some more advanced or different concepts, code a whole bunch more, etc.

It's a bit like learning to play an instrument: you need to practice.

Don't give up yet. I was in a similar position when I first started programming. I took one programming class in high school and FAILED (36% I think :). Yes, my teacher wasn't very good but I had no confidence and all I did was copy my classmates work. I then mucked my way through a first-year uni. java course. That christmas vacation I bought "++: How to program". It took me 2 weeks to read the first 5 chapters, but I promised myself to TRY every single programming exercise in the book (about 300+ I think). This was tough and very frustrating but I stuck it out. At the end of this, my best program was a simple text-based tick-tac-toe game, but I was damn proud of it! I learned that the only way to learn is by doing. The biggest thing you gain from doing something yourself is confidence. Now I'm in my final year of uni. in computer engineering and find myself programming everyday (by choice). It's never too late to learn, don't give up. That fact that you have attempted to read books/tutorials shows me you want to learn. I just think you have been approaching it wrong so far. Good luck.

Try photo reading.

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Hey Charli, why don't you try to make a simple game where you have to make a guy and move around? Just use @ or some other character for the guy. If you have trouble making this, I could give you some code for it and explain how exactly you would make this.

Ooo, I can do that, I can do that! (Well, with @ as the little man), it only took me a few hours too!

Thanks for all the advice folks :) I'm sticking to two languages I think, everyone says C++ is good for having to learn very strict stuff, but PHP gives nice fast results ;) Cheers all :)

Edit: I you have any ideas for harder-than-a-calcius-converter-but-easier-than-text-adventure-project, please post :)

lol my very first game was a game like that, it was sortof like mario, but all you had to do was jump and collect about 5 coins and then you win. Do you think you could do a game like that?