An introductory Coursera course in computer science fundamentals, aimed at absolute beginners and taught in JavaScript. It is self-paced and free, according to commenters.

Commenters call it perfectly suited to people new to programming and recommend trying it before harder beginner courses like Udacity's CS101.

On Reddit (2)

1. Recommendsherculesr/learnprogramming2014in “Where can I start?”▲ 1

   Looks like you want to do web development. You didn't really give a description of your experience with computers in-depth. Using Google Chrome everyday to lookup a girl at school, is unfortunately, not knowing your way around a computer very well. I think a fantastic way to both take on your…

2. Recommendswhindixr/learnprogramming2013in “Here's a list of 31 free online programming/CS courses (MOOCs) with feedback(i.e. exams/homeworks/assignments) that you can start this month (July 2013)”▲ 10

   You don't sound stupid. I've taken the majority of these courses, and I can tell you that these two are tailored for absolute beginners: The Udacity course is more difficult than the Coursera course. The Udacity course may also be confusing to a first time programmer -- little is explained before…

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