Programming is not something to be learned by podcast. It helps to have such a resource to jog your memory, but programming is something which is learned by practice. If you don't do the work, you've got no hope, in all honesty. Programming is also about being picky; it favours the meticulous/OCD and punishes the sloppy.

If you have access to a windows computer, I suggest getting Visual Studio, and playing with that. It has an auto-prompt thing that lists possible functions, variables and methods as you type.