@AmatureIdiot: Actually, once you use them a lot (took me about 1.5 years), you get the hang of it, and start to understand their usefulness, even if you never took a class in C or Cpp.
But in general programming itself (i.e. simple stuff like GUIs and such) isn't that hard. You just have to practice a LOT. It's like math in a sense. I usually never had to force myself to do it, though. In the beginning, it was harder, sure, and it took more motivation to start doing stuff. After the initial "aha, that's how it works", it'll get easier and easier, and you'll have a lot more fun doing it. That is, if you get the hang of it, though. I've been into programming for a WHILE now. The first few years was just dabbling, though, until I started studying CS at University (got my degree earlier this year and I'll start working next month, programming Embedded C stuff with OpenGL. That'll be fun!), which is when a part time hobby became my "bread and butter". The beginning was the hardest, because the HUGE mountain of information that had to be absorbed...
For gaming, an integrated GPU is NOT suited at all... go for a slower CPU and MUCH better GPU... though the third PC doesn't have a proper GPU either... but it's still quite a difference.
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