A rather strange and possibly stupid question for IT professionals.

[Itachi]

I'm thinking about going into a career in my education, but my programming knowledge is limited to downloading VS on my PC. Um... How good is the idea of getting into this field by studying, assembling, and disassembling something like TrinityCore/AzerothCore/Mangos? Well, as a platform for practice. It just sounds more interesting than learning how to create a calculator or a website. Coding is such a broad topic that I simply don't know where to begin; the hardest part is just getting started.