[jfaucett]

Since you say you know html,css, then I think the easiest thing to do would be to learn javascript and jquery and get a github account. This will probably let you see results and start contributing to open source the fastest. Once you get good enough in js you can do some bug fixes for any of the tons of js projects on github and work your way in on that route. I'd say with any non web-centric language (i.e. c, c++, ruby, go, haskell)- especially since you don't know coding yet - your looking at a minimum of two years before you could start actively contributing to a project.

Here's some links to learn js/dom: MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ Opera Developer Site: http://dev.opera.com/ Javascript Repos on github: https://github.com/languages/JavaScript (read the source!)

Also "javascript the good parts" by Crockford is a good javasceript book.

[roryliam]

Thank for you those resources. I've added the book to my Amazon Wishlist. It seems that coding for the web is probably the 'easiest' entry into the world of coding and I have an idea that I wish to pursue so having that goal will give me extra motivation.

Apart from the actual languages and frameworks, what would be the best way to go about learning? Gradually or intensive?