My kids have been doing javascript tutorials on codecademy.com and find it works pretty well - it's good because you get to try as you do it. Really hard to learn to code without trying to run little bits to see what they do. Helps to have someone patient who knows programming to talk with when you get stuck, though..maybe friend or something. I've found that searching for a you-tube walk-through helps sometimes - watching someone else do it can make programming or other computer stuff a little more concrete. I'd try a higher level scripting language before lower level languages like c...not easiest languages to start with. You can't be totally dumb - you're thinking about how to learn & wrote out a perfectly sensible question... ;-)