[stonemetal]

I look at other people's code and it's as if I'm reading Chinese.

How large a program have you written on your own? Where are you finding code to read?

I wouldn't start reading code until you are fairly comfortable writing and debugging code. Reading code is harder than writing code. Start by trying to read code you wrote but haven't looked at in a month. That way you are familiar with what it is supposed to be doing and the style it is written in.

[Spock]

I suppose the largest things I've done is a meme website in PHP which displays an image, forward and back, and a random button, and an upload script; all integrated into MySQL. A football game in Pascal which uses 1 2 3 as user input, and a goal keeper which generates 1 2 or 3, if the input is the same as the goal keeper, then the ball is saved, else you score. And I did a text based adventure game in Python.