I'm probably like you, haven't taken the time as an adult to really rub these things in, but I find it helpful to sometimes throw up a P5.js and do some high sc

I'm probably like you, haven't taken the time as an adult to really rub these things in, but I find it helpful to sometimes throw up a P5.js and do some high school or early uni exercises graphically. JS can be a trivial language and doesn't get in the way and it gives a draw loop for free, including a global frame count you can pull from when you need some integers to juggle. For me it teaches differently than trying to follow video lectures.