Courses are a good way to get started, because they will introduce you to the topic, and give you the vocabulary (that you will use to search afterwards). Learn

Courses are a good way to get started, because they will introduce you to the topic, and give you the vocabulary (that you will use to search afterwards). Learning to program, as in "from scratch", not "learn another language once I know what if and for are, is really hard to do with only a search engine, and will take a lot of time. The fastest way I know to start programming is mentoring: a good mentor can give you directly the meat of the subject, point out your mistakes and tell you how to correct them.