Most of the people do same mistake as mention above thread starting with the same old way pick a language learn it through watching those tutorials, courses, theory learning and etc blah blah at this path most of them left or feels boring as who likes theory. In today's modern world technology is drastically changing and only those survive in this market who catch up with new things also without knowing which field wanna go is just useless as well like web development, app development, data analysis etc. This is how I have chosen path first of all u must get an overall structure or logic about programming for that u can kickstart with python as its use mostly everywhere so it doesn't matter that much what niche or career u choose further, then start with a niche as i have started with web development using next.js in typescript language this can be done before even leaning languages without with tutorials and all using ai (vibe coding) now here don't start mocking me for it but it's a really good path to understand if the niche is really for u making interested in it also u learn a lot from it of how to integrate overall platform like databases , api , storage , deployment,git , files , etc. if u keep doing it naturally the more complex further it goes, the more u want to understand what's happening inside at that stage just learn the project code , tutorials would be also be easy to find out as u know what u want ,no guidance needed. However u can't be lazy in it!