How to get started?

[ctccromer]

This is my first year on my school's robotics team, but our team is fairly small (10-15 total with half of us being complete newbies in most related fields). This year we have an awesome programmer, but next year I'm taking his place and this year I'll be helping with the Kinect pre-game control system, but that's about it.

In all, I'm just really intimidated.. I know nothing about wiring or building materials or anything. I know how to SET UP codes perfectly fine (spent years with StarCraft 2's mapmaker crafting RPG's and what not), but I just downloaded LabVIEW yesterday and only have a very very basic understanding of (part of) the C++ language. So with this year's game being what it is, is there anything specific that I could work on that would help me learn the languages/programs I'll need to master by next year? What is the best way I can learn as quick as possible? I'm devoted to the team and don't mind going home and programming for hours on end (after all, I enjoy the heck out of it and plan on majoring in Computer Science), I'm just extremely intimidated and have no idea where to start.