I taught myself when I was about 14. I ended up programming in response to being given an old laptop that was too resource constrained for the latest Windows OS

I taught myself when I was about 14. I ended up programming in response to being given an old laptop that was too resource constrained for the latest Windows OS. All I wanted to do was browse the internet and listen to music locally. This lead me down. The road of discovering linux and eventually writing a CLI music player in Python. I didn't do any serious programming for years after that. Later on I was struggling through college, switching majors every semester and was running out of time to pick a career. I had no partcuarly strong interest, but I knew I wanted a challenge, so I went into a computer related degree. I am now happily employed 5 years into a career in SWE. To summarize I taught myself to program through whatever resources I had available to me in response to problems that programming could solve. The internet is vast, if you want to learn you will. Don't just rely on the information, reach out to the people for advice, ie find mini-mentors.