I can't say its the best way, but I found learning Clojure as my first was really helpful for me. Like you, I prefer working on real projects as well. Given how

I can't say its the best way, but I found learning Clojure as my first was really helpful for me. Like you, I prefer working on real projects as well. Given how easy it is to use both Java and JS libraries (Clojurescript) there's a bunch of real-world project ideas I could execute on (web apps, CLI tools, cloud-related tooling)