Using the blockchain.info api makes it really easy to check your balance and other address balance. It would be a little silly to go ahead and write your own code for checking balances and whatnot when blockchain.info makes it so easy... Why is it that you do not want to use a third party site anyway?
Blockchain.info is a really trusted site and there shouldn't be any reason why you would not want to utilize it.
Sorry, the question is not "is Blockchain.info trusted". I want to check balances independently, how, this is my question.
Coding is not terrifying me.
OK, I think I found an easy solution, it is the Insight project, it's bitcoin blockchain explorer, I will deal with it.
Anyway, about bitcoind and Bitcoin Full Node, it's good everyone who win from bitcoin, to run one of these, it's good for bitcoin network, as I readed, I will, it's cheap to run VPS in the present, something like $5/month.