Can anyone give me advice on learning coding please!

Which programming languages to learn depends on what you want to create.
Do you want to create desktop/business applications, 3D games, websites ? They all have languages best suited to them.

Heres an approach you can take. Using free software to learn web development, which is the easiest coding to get into.

Download and install:
http://www.easyphp.org/easyphp-devserver.php
This is a free and very easy web server setup I've seen.

Text editor with syntax highlighting for writing code.
http://www.pspad.com/en/

Follow the tutorials on here in this order:
http://www.w3schools.com/


The first 2 in the list are the basics the other 3 are more advanced. You will likely need to use google to supplement those tutorials especially if you get stuck. Or post questions on here.

Why do people love coding so much, you think?

'Code' runs everything technical - from digital watches to modern TVs.

Imagine if we did not program - we would have a bunch of hardware stuff that could not function!

When dealing with technology, programming languages are a necessity even if they are often overlooked they represent a significance in the way we do things. You wake up and use your microwave oven, pressing the 'quick preheat' button sends a message, to radiate you bacon ASAP.

Honestly... That's not why I code, maybe why you code but not why all of us code. I code because it gives me the power to create something, and then destroy it, oh yeah, I also like seeing people using my products.

Hi I recently got interested in coding. I just want to learn this as a hobby and I know it will take many years and I am alright with that.

But so many websites are giving different directions on which programme language to learn. Can anyone give me a detailed approach on what to learn first - the basic and then how to improve the knowledge. Thank you.

What do you mean by "my products"?

"maybe why you code but not why all of us code." - Does this include the guys over at IBM or Oracle?

But I do concur with your premise to a certain extent.

I would recommend codeacademy.com. They have very good tutorials taht explains everything to you.

A great site where you can create cool things out of HTML, CSS and Javascript is codepen.com. Have a look and see how people have done things, its really inspirational

Books, books and more books. Before you get started, you need the proper fundamentals or else you'll just be messing around, not knowing what you're doing, which can be quite frustrating.

Effort is better spent in properly knowing what you're doing and making a design, working it out rather than debugging for hours on a problem that could have been solved if you'd studied a little.

Oh yes and here's some other great advice: write a different program every day and commit yourself to that.

This is a course similar of what I had in freshman year and it's of utmost high quality: Harvard's Computer Science 101:

Lecture series (includes all videos and course material):
https://cs50.harvard.edu/weeks

First lecture:
https://video.cs50.net/2016/fall/lectures/0?t=0m3s

He explains everything that has to do with programming, from the very basics of understanding what data is, what information is and how it is processed, to understanding algorithms and their efficiency. This can save you headaches if you notice that your randomly written program inexplicably hogs your CPU up to 100% and there's seemingly nothing you can do about it - that is, if you don't know how to properly write algorithms and troubleshoot them.

I cannot stress enough that you need the fundamentals first, rather than some random programs.
Enjoy.