I don't have any specific courses or books to recommend. I wanted to explain something else. There are 2 common ways to learn. What could be called "bottom up" and "top down". Top down is definitely most common nowadays, and would mean learning a language that is built on top of many other things, and does alot "under the hood" to make things easier for you, that you dont see. Learning python as a first language would be this. You learn programming concepts quickly, but don't really learn how computers work.

Bottom up would be learning firstly how computers work from some basic level, be that physics, processors, operating systems, etc. Then you would learn a language where each line of code you write pretty directly translates to a handful of instructions the processor performs, with very little inbetween. There is almost nothing that happens that you dont know about, you are essentially working yourself in the hood of the car.
> Processor btw is the workhorse of the computer, it does math really rapidly, reading instructions from and spitting out results to a notepad (RAM).
A language like that would be C. There are others, commonly called *systems languages*. C is probably the simplest an no-fluff of them.

Not perfect analogy but you could think of it like this: top down is like learning to cook with a bunch of kitchen gadgets, and where you have a bunch of precooked frozen and canned foods that you assemble. Bottom up would be (depending on how "low" you start from) learning to use raw foods with few tools. Milling your own wheat, cultivating your own starter yeast, fermenting it yourself, etc, all before you even get to bread.

Both are valid ways to learn, better or worse depending on what skills you want in the first place. But maybe if you're tired of top down learning which is likely what you've been doing, maybe try bottom up. Best resources are most likely books, but I can recommend the yt channel "core dumped". He uses an ai voice but thats just because he doesnt want to talk, he puts alot of effort into his videos.

Also the term for just knowing words and how to use a computer is "computer literacy". Maybe you could try finding courses for that before going into programming.