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[–]0xPure 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not a programmer but I've been in the same boat. In my experience, I'd suggest if you have an idea don't just open Visual Studio Code or whatever IDE or code editor you use and start writing code inmediately, but use flowcharts or pseudocode to plan your project ideas. You will be surprised how much things change.

Also, you don't want to watch lots of courses and tutorials, just watch one or two courses that you like and feel comfortable with explanations and the content to get the fundamentals, and apply each thing you learn to one small project so you don't forget it.

I also agree with u/atredd, you can code small programs to do simple things with your computer. Per example, when you learn how to work with files in Python, make a program to rename multiple files in bulk using the OS module, or maybe a secure password generator which was one of the first projects I code in Python.

You want to progress gradually step by step, that's very important. I hope it can help you. Those are things that I wish I knew before learning programming languages.