This might not work for you but it works for me:

I do intermittent fasting (16 hour fast and an 8 hour feeding window) every day. I workout in the last hour of my fasting and then eat my biggest meal of the day.

My typical schedule goes like this: -My last meal (usually a protein shake or cottage cheese) right before 9:00pm. -I wake up and have tea -At 11:45 I head to the gym and workout for an hour or more -At 1:00 I eat my biggest meal -For dinner I just try to have a regular sized portion of food

I try to keep my protein and carb intake around the same amount of grams and keep the fats somewhat low. On the weekends I fast, but I don’t workout and I try to lower my carbs (this usually doesn’t happen though).

What I really like about working out at lunch is that I get away from the office and it makes me feel focused and fresh for the rest of the day.

I am really sorry to hear about your recent struggles. I am no stranger to feeling this way.

Right now you are thinking there are no options to make your parents proud or fulfill your life goals. Don't ever think there are no options. We can't always follow our desired path that we lay out for ourselves. Sometimes we have to follow a different path because of unforeseeable, or sometimes, self-inflicting circumstances. In a perfect life I would have gone to film school after high school, but instead I ended up doing a bunch of other stuff until I graduated with a B.S. when I was 31.

You are going to need to way your options. As others have said you should consider community college. It is cheap, and if your parents can help you, you can work part-time and afford it. After two years of community college you can transfer to a state college.

Everyone has failed, my friend. Pick yourself back up. I know it is hard, I know it feels like the future is dim, but it isn't.

If you want to talk further my email is my username @gmail.com

Why don't you send me an email (it is in my profile) and we can talk. I have done some (very little) art and game programming in Unity. You can see some of the art I was doing for a couple other games at stintaril.blogspot.com that never went anywhere.

Anyways, hit me up and lets chat! If nothing else we can talk about video games.

Hey I looked on your HN page and didn't see an email. Mine is on my page.

I would take Udacity's CS101 course instead and then the Web Development Course they provide. This will give you a very good foundation for getting started. I have taken both and I highly recommend them.

The language you will use will be Python, but what is important are the fundamentals you will learn in these courses. You can then apply them to any language and framework you want to work with.

Are you referring to front-end design/development? If so, there are many subscription based websites as well as free websites to use.

Sub-based: CodeAcademy (mentioned by anthonycerra), teamtreehouse.com and codeschool.com are a few.

Free: Udacity.com (some HTML5 and design courses), w3schools.com and stackoverflow.

As systemtrigger said using Chrome Dev tools and changing style rules is incredibly useful. Do not neglect using dev tools. In Chrome shift+control+j will bring up the tools, and I highly recommend just playing around in that environment. Type in scripts in the console and just see the different things you can do with JQUERY and Javascript.

Best of all is to have a basis for an idea and just start hacking something together. If you have any questions you can email me at stintaril@gmail.com and I will try and help.