find a fun challenge you personally enjoy solving, and start with some high level languages to get some experience of what "coding means", and slowly give yours

find a fun challenge you personally enjoy solving, and start with some high level languages to get some experience of what "coding means", and slowly give yourself time to learn, through trial and error, copy other people's work from places like github and "check out" copies to work with, see if you can get things to build, or "compile" and run, and be patient, take your time, keep it interesting and fun, and find groups to work with, at least 2 or 3 peers learning at the same pace as you, and a few mentors to learn from, folk you can easily meet online, join some meetup.com groups, virtual and in person, dial into googel hangouts or zoom calls where you can to listen, watch, and absorb, and be careful and selective about the amount of content you consume from youtube or similar as it's easy to get caught wasting time on folk who are not good teachers or programmers and you go down a dead end rabbit hole.. start small, have fun, build many things - even start with things like HTML and build a web page you can load with a web browsers, then add some simple JavaScript for popups or forms, don't write off the fun languages like LOGO and BASIC can give you to get started, jumping in too deep too soon will potentially turn you off coding.. you can have a lot of fun with web based programming spaces as well.. here's a fun COmmodore 64 BASIC emulator to play with https://c64emulator.111mb.de/index.php?site=pp_javascript&lang=en&group=c64 https://c64emulator.111mb.de/index.php?site=pp_javascript&la... here's a fun simple workspace to learn how to program in different languages, try this one: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_basic_online.php https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_basic_online.php here are some other great resources https://www.businessinsider.com/64-places-you-can-learn-to-code-online-for-free-2016-4?IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/64-places-you-can-learn-to-c... https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/learn-coding-online-for-free/ https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/learn-coding-online-for-... https://learntocodewith.me/posts/code-for-free/ https://learntocodewith.me/posts/code-for-free/ https://dynomapper.com/blog/410-top-25-websites-to-learn-to-code https://dynomapper.com/blog/410-top-25-websites-to-learn-to-... https://skillcrush.com/blog/64-online-resources-to-learn-to-code-for-free/ https://skillcrush.com/blog/64-online-resources-to-learn-to-... have fun!!