Some things about computers....

To better understand how to program, you must first know what your computer does. When you write a program you send a message to the computer which than translates it to things known as bytes which are just 1's and 0's. In between these two steps there are many things that take place which will be touched on later, but 1's and 0's are the essence of how a computer runs and how we can make these machines do what we want.
A computer is just a collection of electrical circuits that fire off images onto a monitor. They do this and internal calculations as well by a continuous stream of the simple answer yes or no. 1 represents yes while 0 is of course the opposite. This is the basic of any computer running. By programming, you are essentially putting English words into a translator and it then converts them to bytes for the computer to read and then act on. While a programmer does not need to know this, helping to understand this basic concept will allow for the learning at hand to not be so daunting. All programming is on a basic level is learning a new language so that you too can talk to your computer.