Natty Narwhal wrote:The Truth and Light wrote:What are your aspirations?
To be a programmer. If I succeed at this at all (and I probably won't), I'll be a code monkey at best. When that inevitably fails, I'll just work at a restaurant for 2 years then promptly hang myself in my dilapidated apartment.
Find a friend over the internet to mentor you. You can visit one of those Java forums or gaming servers (or, hell, create one yourself, it'll be a good practice).
I myself am a beginner programmer and rely on my mentor (though we don't regularly "do it" that much). And he himself had a mentor before.