Why do you want to learn programming ? Just for the sake of it, or because you will be able to create applications you will enjoy create and use ?

Learning to code 'hello world' is boring, useless and brainless. Forget it. You never learn anything that way. I just remember my days back in college, where I was to learn C by programming useless tasks. It was deadly boring, and I didn't learned that much. We only enjoyed ourselves after class, programming things we were interested in.

Pick up a nice language (eg: Ruby), get a good book about it [ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/ http://qa.poignantguide.net/ ], and check out what you could do with it. Focus on things you like or will find useful. Writing something you will use (even for just a few minutes) is entertaining, and maybe you'll start to (really) like programming.