If you had all the skills you needed, what program would you write? What problem would it solve? Now start writing that program and pick up the skills to solve

If you had all the skills you needed, what program would you write? What problem would it solve? Now start writing that program and pick up the skills to solve little pieces of the big problem you want to solve. Does your program need to fetch something from the Internet? Learn to do that. Does it need to read a file? Learn to do that. Break up the problem into small manageable pieces. Learn git to version your code. Invest one day to learn how to commit and push your changes into GitHub or GitLab. It will save you a lot of time and will avoid breaking your heart by not losing your code. If you have a language in mind, learn the syntax quickly and to do the most basic stuff, then get a cookbook that shows you how to do useful things, like reading or writing to a file, or sending something to a server. These will help you solve the little pieces of your problem. Software can be useful to people. What do you want your program to help you with? Imagine you can do anything in a computer, find a problem you're passionate about, and set out to solve it. You'll be way ahead. You can also do that when you pick an nth language. When I wanted to learn Python, I started to write a program that would allow you to send airtime (mobile money) from one SIM card to other SIM cards of different operators. You can't do that, but I essentially did impedance matching. The service would expose n mobile numbers corresponding to n operators. You send money to the number from your same operator, and then send an SMS specifying the amounts and the recipients. The service then would use its own SIM cards for the target networks and send money. Learning can be accelerated doing a real project. Then you can refine your programming.