Well I can’t help you at all but I give your post visiblity by answering so that more people will hopefully see it. I’m sure that you – and others, including me – are not the only one interested in getting general advices about how to start coding, even though coding is a diversified world :mods, video games, apps, security, websites, heavier programs, et cetera. And I know there is a few experienced coders around sometimes on these forums, so if you have some spare time and dunno how to kill it, why not use it here ?
So I hope I can help a little bit like this.