/sci/ - Science & Math

Autodidactic learner here.

I'm attempting to teach myself computer programming, but I find that in many of the books and freely-available tutorials, I run across the same stumbling block:

I'll see or hear a term I'm unfamiliar with
I'll look up the definition
It's defined with more terms I'm unfamiliar with
So I look up those terms
They are also defined with terms I can't understand

My question is thus: am I going about this the wrong way? Can anybody who has taught themselves programming tell me how they learned? Was there a specific book or video that really helped it click? Moreover, I wonder if I'm not just going about this the wrong way altogether, and if I am, any guidance in the right direction would be most appreciated.