The Programming Line... Or .... How And What To Learn...
1. Learn HTML (fairly easy)
2. GoTo VisualBasic Script (relatively easy, every script is still a script)
3. Learn V-B (attractive and easy, must have an excellent logical brain and a cool head)
4. Learn JAVA (nearly hard a C++, but it is the next step)
With this knowledge, you can be a ... Hacker.... Phracker, or whatever you want.
5. You are a programmer.
... just like me ...
Books?
Hundreds of them are available, but they will not help you if you intend to learn it on a quick basis.
Programming is a slow and painful process, i've been working with languages for 10 years now
and sometimes i forget how to make a simple F*cking box.
It would be best if you first started with and easy BASIC programming language.