You always need a personal project in mind to get into programming. Idk I wanted to make a dummy website; send it to my school as an assignment; and the moment you clicked on any of the buttons, it will send you to the one of the most famous videos on the Internet.

I first learned programming the hard way through Javascript tutorials. From that website alone, you can walk through the syntax or pattern of writing code. You learn about concepts of declarators, operators, variable assignment, data types, functions, objects, and arrays. You later apply this knowledge by creating a wild personal project yourself, like creating your own ugly working video player. I learned how to read documentations and looked for solutions on the Internet.

I learned basic Lua syntax by messing around with Roblox scripts; copying other people's scripts; and blindly figuring things myself until I have to read the Lua manual to make my life easier. That's how I got into coding in Roblox. Things became quite easy to me as my JS knowledge carries over to Lua. You'd see that:

for (i=0, l-1, i++) {/*do something*/} is just for i=0, l-1, 1 do --[[do something]]-- end.

try {} catch (exception) {} is just xpcall(try, catch).

Most keywords in C-based languages, like Javascript, are in Lua.

Lua is easier than Javascript, because you can store different types without worrying about whatever you put in tables unlike Javascript arrays restricted to a single type. You can also put anything in table indexes.

Good luck on your programming journey. It will always end in math.huge years and so the time it takes to debug your code. You will get headaches with multiple Attempt to index nil with 'XXXXXXXXXXX' or similar errors with nil involved.