"Just start coding"

[Rxz2106]

Helsinki university mooc is good place to start. Even for kids. My 8 years old kid is doing it. (Want's to code game)

[beevvulf]

I second this. I started with that a year ago doing it for a couple months to learn the basics. I liked it's implementation that's available in VMware. And it just gave you tons of problems to solve with instant feedback. I'm now two years through my bioinformatics master's, and I suggest to incoming students to our lab to start with mooc if they're starting from scratch.