Programming College Courses

[John Gutmann]

Ok, So I do not know if this is the correct place for this thread so work with me. I a allready reall good at mechanical and electrical things. But seeing as how I want to do alot of my own robotics projects and be self-sufficient at them I want to get into programming more. I want to sign up for a programming course at college but I do not know how much I will get out of it. Understand that I know nothing and I mean NOTHING about programming. Well maybe a little...It only took me til now to get the timer working on my Atmel AVR. So if I take a first level or begginers programming course in college do you think I will get enough to do simple programs from just that one semester's worth of learning? I want to be able to do like timed actions, basic driving PWMs and reading and interpreting sensors and data. basically what we do for our robots in competition.