Hello, I am wanting to learn code and programming but have no idea where to start. I have been looking online and have seen python and linux and host of other programs. I have spent two days reading how-to's and other stuff but now i'm just extremely confused. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.codecademy.com/

Interactive learning.

Don't read too much upfront, just start coding. I think python is a good language to start with. Plenty good tutorials out there. Mostly the first chapters of data types, variable declaration etc. are a bit boring but it soon gets more interesting...

If you are interested in building web pages html is an easy start, too. You can use a wysiwyg builder and inspect the code it creates. Then modify it and see how it affects the way the page is displayed in the browser. Html is not really a programming language, but it's rewarding to start with because you see results very quickly. You can then slowly move on with putting a php statement here and there to build dynamic pages. It's a smooth start...

Happy coding!

Personally, I started programming when I discovered the "PGRM" button on my TI-84. If you really know nothing about programming, it might be worth a shot, especially if you have a calculator laying arround. It doesn't have to be a TI-84; the 83 is almost identical, and I think that the 82 is similar. Just Google "TI-xx Guidebook" and find the PDF. It has a list of all of the programming commands in it.

That said, you should only use it until you get a hang of the basics. If you don't have a programmable calculator, do NOT go out and buy one for the sole purpose of learning to program. The language is called TI-BASIC for a reason. It lacks the true sstructure that any standard programming language has. I probably spent 1-1.5 years before I discovered Python, and I was shocked to discover that it was required to close your parenthesis.

Now, I'm in a C++ class at my high school. So far, I've only learned syntax, because I learned what a for loop and if statement was back in TI-BASIC.

That's just my experience, it may or may not apply or be useful to you.

I agree, don't read too much, do it...
If you want to try bash http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz