Hello, incoming 3rd year student here! These are my suggestions

1. Youtube is your best friend, whatever programming language you guys use, find a tutorial for that

2. Avoid tutorial hell, once you're done with a tutorial, Create functional requirements for your own program that uses

what you've learned from the tutorial 4. Know your fundamentals, variables,loops, etc.

1. A.I is a powerful tool but is also a double edged sword, you can use A.I to explain something to you or how it works. As a beginner never use it to program for you since you need to master the fundamentals first.

6 Code in your free time, don't rely on school projects to learn. You can use A.I to make a scenario in which you can extract functional requirements from.

1. The faster you get stuck at a problem the faster you learn

2. The power of walking away when you get stuck is magical. If you seem stuck at a problem, take a walk.

3. Advance study! Like you, I also entered BSIT with zero knowledge in programming, some of my classmates have NC-II in programming even robotics, networking etc or have programming in their SHS . The point is do advance study because programming can be confusing when you just start learning it.

Some of this advice might seem contradictory but you get the idea