I taught myself to code in junior high, pre-web and (unless you worked at a university) pre-internet. I would have killed for the access to the plethora of pro

I taught myself to code in junior high, pre-web and (unless you worked at a university) pre-internet. I would have killed for the access to the plethora of programming-related content available to people today. I had access to a couple of others who were also trying to learn what we could do on a TRS-80 Level I, and that's about it. I bought computing magazines that had some code in the back of them, and learned from a few programs that were passed around on diskettes. Later my parents bought me a Tandy Color Computer. I purchased an assembler for it and a book on 6809 assembly programming and finally felt like I was making some progress. I just wanted to throw that out there. It's a completely different world now and the access we all have to programming resources would blow the mind of the younger me. If I can give one suggestion, it's to learn about how computers work at a low level as you're learning whatever language calls to you. It helps tie the concepts together in a way that learning only the syntax and quirks of one language does not.