I don't think you need to get through those three books as your first order of business learning to program. "Give up you're never going to get it" is a ridiculous attitude to have when trying to learn anything.
Try something simple. Work your way up to more and more complicated things just like any other learning endeavour.
If you want to stick to plumbing type programming then go for it. If you want to branch out into a more formal computer science type understanding, by all means grab some text books and learn some data structures, algorithms, abstractions, oop patterns, etc.
Try something simple. Work your way up to more and more complicated things just like any other learning endeavour.
If you want to stick to plumbing type programming then go for it. If you want to branch out into a more formal computer science type understanding, by all means grab some text books and learn some data structures, algorithms, abstractions, oop patterns, etc.