A good man once told me that once you know the logic behind programming and can map it out of one programming language, then you pretty much know most about any other language. In my opinion if you don't know how to work with code, there is a book you can get called Programming Logic and Design... Once you know the logic behind programming, and understand flow-charting and pseudo-code then you can go on and learn any other programming language, minus the syntax. Using Programming Logic, you learn how to process input, loops, if then else statements, variables, housekeeping, and much more. You will have more efficient codes, and in my opinion it's step one to learning how to program.