[jesusmichael]

Man... I hear you. I was a CTO for many years (I'm old, in tech years) and didn't even look at code for a long time. When I left that job to be a partner in start-up I was doing everything. Coding, sysadmin, pulling fiber thru the homemade server chiller... so I know what you're talking about.

If you get LAMP development and OOP, most things haven't changed. Java is helpful to learn, Ruby/Rails and frameworks work like template engines so if you get that concept you should pick up MVC pretty quick.

If you're going to build apps on mobile my suggestion is to work in iOS. There is lots of code out there to do just about anything you want to do.

I'm building an app in .net for my windows phone just to see how it works. Its very easy and they deploy really easily. So you might want to look there too if you have .NET experience.