Learning to program.

The best way to learn programming is by doing. Making websites with PHP and/or Ruby on Rails is dead simple. I'm sure your friend can figure it out.

There are over 9,000 "Learn to Program!1" websites/books/pornfilms out there, pick any of them.

Just start programming as much as possible. It's as much art as it is science, and the only way to get better at either one is to just practice a lot, and figure out how to teach yourself. You'll be having to retrain for the rest of your career -- the best programmers are the ones who can pick up a new technology within hours.

It's not an easy or glamourous job, by any stretch of the imagination. 99% of people end up doing something boring like working on accounting software or writing internal tools for some megacorp. If you're good, you might just land a hotshot job at a cool company, or strike out on your own and have a successful startup, but the odds are against you.

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Jam it back in, in the dark.