civic.slow wrote:
hey im a newbie, to this stuff AND coding
but my dad is teaching me visual basic, and i have his old books but all the links to the source codes are dead.
i plan to study off of these codes and figure out what and how you guys are doing what you are.
haha just a young kid with hopes and dreams? LOL
Good to see someone with dreams and aspirations rolling up their sleeves. Keep working, don't get discouraged, and you will succeed. I learned computers on my own from a young age and am now living my dream so far as career is concerned. Now if I can just make my millions.

You might check the thread in my sig for an overview of tuning a Civic.
A lot of the hacking that's done here relates to the ECU (Engine Control Unit) in Honda cars. There are certainly a few applications that run on a PC that we use to tune our cars. In order to write or even understand the applications we use on the PC you'll need to understand what's going on in the ECU to an extent.
Visual Basic is a great first language to learn. Depending upon how much you like hardware, digital electronics, and that sort of thing you might study assembly and/or "C". Those languages will help you figure out what's going on in an ECU more than something like Visual Basic, which isn't used for programming ECUs.
Whatever you decide, work hard and have fun! There is so much to learn about programming and cars you'll probably never figure it all out. If you like learning it's the perfect place for you to be! Don't worry if it doesn't all come in a short period of time - even the most brilliant software people don't know everything about their field.
