Well, I haven't quite forgotten how I learned to program, but it was Fortran, Basic, Z-80 assembler, and C, so I don't really recommend that route. What I do strongly recommend for somebody who is just starting to learn programming, however, are Leo Brodie's two books on Forth: Starting Forth and Thinking Forth. It doesn't matter that you may never actually use Forth for any practical project. These two books can't be beat for teaching you how to think about programming. In the course of our lives we occasionally run into things that change the way that our brain works in a fundamental way. For me it was working hard at chess and learning Forth from these books. Check them out.
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Well, I haven't quite forgotten how I learned to program, but it was Fortran, Basic, Z-80 assembler, and C, so I don't really recommend that route. What I do strongly recommend for somebody who is just starting to learn programming, however, are Leo Brodie's two books on Forth: Starting Forth and Thinking Forth. It doesn't matter that you may never actually use Forth for any practical project. These two books can't be beat for teaching you how to think about programming. In the course of our lives we occasionally run into things that change the way that our brain works in a fundamental way. For me it was working hard at chess and learning Forth from these books. Check them out.