Does anybody know of any video tutorials / courses / programs that will teach you computer programming in Japanese. I am thinking of picking a magazine/book or something, but anything with audio/video would be so much better of course.

Try Googling "(language name) 入門" in both Google's regular search, and in video search.
If you don't know which language to start with, try プログラミング入門 instead.

Look what I found: http://www.attainj.co.jp/ja/prd/train.html

Looks good? Each volume, ~1hr. is about ￥35,000.

You have to be rich and crazy to buy that. Now, how do you say "torrent" in Japanese?

Bokusenou Wrote:try プログラミング入門 instead.

Taking this a step further, here's one that looks interesting (it is for C):

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5090515EFC80565E

CJ

turvy Wrote:Now, how do you say "torrent" in Japanese?

Perfect Dark P2P software. They don't really have torrent trackers because of very strict copyright laws. You can get 2 years in prison for saving a Youtube video with a downloader. Winny and Share are other P2P programs that are still around to some degree but they're outdated. Perfect Dark has a pretty large user base but I have found it lacking in media outside of the otaku sphere (anime/manga/pr0n). In general it seems the Internet in Japan consists of anime/manga/pr0n for the otaku and blogs for everyone else.

If you want a book, try looking on Amazon for used ones. There were a bunch of 1円 ones last time I looked. I had someone send me them though, since Amazon's international shipping is too expensive.

Edit: if you're in Japan then why not try a used book shop as well as Amazon? I saw quite a few programming ones in Book Off when I was there.