Codeing (or Programming) is a laborious path taken by a few people who enjoy being tortured by logic and context-free grammars (this, in turn, affects their English writing abilities, or lack there-of). Programming usually involves running an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, which Dream Maker happens to be. IDEs are pretty much available for every language, and offer more features and functionality to aide programmers aside from compiling the code.

The programmer (one who partakes in the exercise of programming) is, more often than not, not your typical nerd figure that you have no doubt met (OOH! double negative possibilities!). We programmers are actually like you normal humans, except we spend our time at our computers creating many lines of computer code so we can make them do things that we want them to, such as create pretty graphics or allow others to play some sort of game. We're fun people who are pretty non-inclusive, unless you're stupid. We frown upon blatant stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance. This is often why we stay away from popular culture as well.

*ahem*

As for learning how to code in BYOND, there are MANY tutorials available online. Below are links to a few highly recommended ones.

First, read this: http://bwicki.byond.com/ByondBwicki.dmb?DosAndDonts It will GREATLY help you to know what is written here when asking for help.

Then, check these out, with A Step BYOND being the last:
http://zilal.byondhome.com/tutorials/zbt.html1
http://developer.byond.com/hub/Dantom/YourFirstWorld
http://developer.byond.com/hub/Deadron/StepBYOND

These tutorials should help you gain an understanding about creating games for BYOND. Further FAQs can be found here:
http://bwicki.byond.com/ByondBwicki.dmb?NewbieQuestions
and
http://bwicki.byond.com/ByondBwicki.dmb?BasicTopics

these two web pages provide a GREAT wealth of information for new programmers who want to know how to do stuff. If you don't understand what is written there, or if you don't see a topic there that you need help on, feel free to ask here or on the code problems forum.

On another note, it's useful to know another programming language in addition to BYOND. I personally recommend you try out Python (www.python.org), as BYOND is quite influenced by it. It is also an easy to use and understand language. Python is also, supposedly, part of YouTube's backbone (the stuff behind the scenes).