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You don't have to donate. It should download as a zip file, which you can unzip anywhere. Then just run the Processing application.

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We can't recommend an entire curriculum for you. What books you read is entirely up to you, what you're interested in, what you're confused about, etc.

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I personally recommend trying out Processing: http://processing.org/

Processing is built on top of Java, so you're learning all the same syntax, but it eliminates all of the extra Java boilerplate...