Need a good, COMPLETE tutorial in programming....?

Question

My school does not offer a programming class, yet I want to start learning how to make programs. To be more specific, PSP homebrew, but I want to learn about programming in general in case of future incidents.

I have ABSOLUTELY no idea about anything in programming programs, but I've messed with HTML and that's about it. I don't know what C++, Lua, or anything else really, just that they're programming languages.

For PSP homebrew, I read something about knowing Lua or C++ (it also said Lua was easier), so I want to have a bit more focus in that rather than anything else. Learning Lua would also help with WoW addon development, in case I ever wanted to delve into that realm of programming.

Since I'm almost completely clueless with programming, are there any good tutorials for programming out there (Google is no help), that maybe some of you experienced programmers may know about, because I want to learn some Lua, and maybe C++ or anything else, rather badly

Thanks all for those answers.

Answer 1

C++ Tutorials online:

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http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson1.html

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

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Free Electronic Books:

Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel

Volume 1 - http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/thinking_in_c++/index.html

Volume 2 - http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/c++_practical_programming/index.html

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Code::Blocks == Open Source C/C++ IDE

http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/binaries

Answer 2

Here is a bunch of lua tutorials.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/TutorialDirectory

Answer 3

You've got to pick a language first. As mentioned above, you might want to start with Visual Basic as it's a simpler language to pick up than say C++ or C# for example.