Back in the early 80's, if you were lucky enough to have a home computer, you switched on and if you could be bothered looking at the books that came in the box, you had everything you needed to take your first steps in computer programming/becoming a social outcast. Now you fire up Windows, and by default there's almost no coding tools installed, so if there's no-one around to show you how, the chances are you won't. Maybe you'll learn HTML, but HTML isn't really much like coding for the most part unless you dabble with Javascript.
So this BBC article points to a few interesting resources. First there's Scratch, which sounds like it's pretty much 100% visual. Then there's HacketyHack which is apparently all about learning Ruby, which I gather is probably quite an interesting language.
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