I completely agree but have a few words of precaution that might prevent somebody from falling into a trap that I did. My advice is DO buy high quality books/c

I completely agree but have a few words of precaution that might prevent somebody from falling into a trap that I did. My advice is DO buy high quality books/courses that teach the fundamentals too. Scan them so you know what kind of stuff you can learn from there. When stuck making something try to learn the hard way. Learning from blog articles/tutorials like "How to make X" that give you prepackaged answers is just very unproductive in the long run. Been there, done that. Also keep in mind that when you're working with other people knowing the right jargon is very useful. It will make you better at finding the right answers on Google too. Speaking jargon is the natural language equivalent of high-level programming.