How much experience programming?

How much experience programming did many of you have before starting to fuck around with rotmg hacking? I took AP Programming in high school in java which was a joke but I am currently in university as a freshman taking python. I want to start doing stuff with realm but when I look at source codes of other peoples projects it seems like a lot to just take in all at once.

i think a lot of us, apart from the big names who created the original projects (ie botmaker, krazyshank, jnoob, nilly, and others), had little to no programming experience. the only course i've taken on c# is an online video course that was about 30 hours, and from there i was able to dabble with small modifications to projects (k-relay, realm-relay) created by the community.

I started with zero experience and made random shit in a cycle:
1) Idea
2) Begin project
3) Google everything I don't know
4) Eventually, barely, complete project

I've since greatly improved and google is now for edge cases. I read a lot of articles and browse other programming blogs. Learn new APIs for fun and re-invent the wheel out of curiosity. You need to have the desire to learn and tinker and once you start you will see success in a good amount of time.

Im pretty sure most of the coders here started with 0 experience in C# and learned it from videos/internet blabla
My coding skills are horrible but i never bothered to learn it properly cause i didnt need to.

I have been doing C/C++ for about 15+ years, php/web languages for about 8+ years. I had looked at C# a few times in the past but never got into it as i wasnt interested in a .net language. When i came to the forums and saw 90% of stuff is in C# i started looking at various sources and picked it up from there (its like a mix between c++ and java for the most part, fairly easy to learn). Im still not that big a fan of C#, but if you are trying to learn i would pretty much do exactly as krazyshank mentioned.

Started with no programming experience prior to playing this game.
Basically just pick a language you like, look up some tutorials so you get to know the syntax and form of the language.
After that make a project. Need to do something but don't know? Google it and then you will know how to do it the next time you need to it.
Pretty much anything you don't know how to do just google it and study how it works, eventually you won't need google when you use these so often.

If you want to make hacks C# isn't a bad place to start, though if you want to use your python experience it certainly wouldn't hurt to add some of that into the section.