You don't need to have a great idea to start programming something. I'd start from the easy part. Like, a program that you already use it. Try to make something that you already know how it works. Faces your problems, so you'll learn it faster. Once you have more experience, you'll start to have some good ideas of programs to make your life easier while programming, or just a good program to do something you never thought about it before. I've been programming Java for almost a year, and other languages for a couple of years. It took time to start doing what I really wanted to do. I just started doing my own stuff. Thanks to StackOverflow. I didn't know about it before.