Harvard's CS50 course is the best place to start (I think much better than MIT 6.0001). The teaching is great, and it covers a lot of stuff without dumbing thin

Harvard's CS50 course is the best place to start (I think much better than MIT 6.0001). The teaching is great, and it covers a lot of stuff without dumbing things down. They also have a couple of follow-up courses which focus on web/games/ML.