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[Noah Buttes]

Codeacademy is awful.

I'd recommend just about any other resource over codeacademy.

I started with small BASIC before moving on to visual basic.

Small basic is good for beginners looking to get the fundamentals of programming down.

Visual basic is similar to small basic but is a fully featured programming language that you can actually make commercial applications with.

You could also just jump right into gooncode and learn through trial and error, but that's probably a recipe for suffering and disaster