Does anyone know of any free programming tutorials suitable for a behavioral psychologist?

I'm looking for something for the Visual Basic, J#, C#, or C++ 2005 Express Editions. In your opinion, which language would be easiest for someone who only knows HTML to learn quickly (like, within a couple of months)?





I want to do research on effective programming of ancillary study materials for textbooks and with a very tight budget I can't afford to pay someone to write all the code I'm going to need.





Thank you!

Does anyone know of any free programming tutorials suitable for a behavioral psychologist?
If you want to become very productive, you need to have a suitable foundation. Here is the MIT beginning computer science course book:





http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/





You can get the entire book for free as HTML and also the Scheme interpreter that is used for the examples. If you give some requirements of your project I might be able to recommend a specific language. An example of a requirement might be:





"I need to write a program that will accept a set of files as input. Each file contains the study materials for a text book. The program should print out the number of times the word 'ancillary' occurs in each file."
Reply:Try to pick up a scripting language. BASIC is a good starting point. Even C++ without GUI is easy to learn. pick up a good book, the basics you can master in couple of weeks.