Best program and books to learn how to code?

The C Programming Language by K&R (if you are interested in C)

Code Complete is a great read. It will help you out a great deal no matter which language you choose.

I would add The Little Schemer to the list. It may not seem like the most practical book, but it will make you a better programmer.

How to Design Programs (get version 2. Racket, the IDE for this book, is practically plug-and-play

That book has been very helpful for some people.

my recommendation is to start with Eloquent Javascript then Dive into HTML5 and then DOM Scripting

Eloquent Javascript (very good introduction, all examples can be done directly in the browser

Javascript - http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html

-- Land of Lisp

Rails - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

a real gem of a book is Core Python Programming by Westley Chun

my recommendation is to start with Eloquent Javascript then Dive into HTML5 and then DOM Scripting

Dive into HTML5 (if you are interested in web development.

my recommendation is to start with Eloquent Javascript then Dive into HTML5 and then DOM Scripting

Starting Forth, by Leo Brodie

Think Python by Allen Downey (i haven't read this one, but it comes very highly recommended. the excerpts I've read show that Allen communicates the concepts very clearly)