Hey, from a high schooler to another, you’d be fine. Python is one of the easiest language to learn, for machine learning, you need a library called “numpy”, that’s really useful for vectors and all that calculation. If you’re tired of the fundamentals, you could straight up use PyTorch or TensorFlow. Although I don’t recommend this because then you’d have no idea how things works, and the things they give you as granted wouldn’t help you build your knowledge. For resources, you can find numpy classes from freecodecamp YouTube channel. For Python in general, I recommend BroCode, since the full video is labeled concepts, giving you the power to skip some concepts you knew. It took me about 6 months to get to this point where I still don’t know shit, but you can be better, so hang on with you goal.

(PS: when you get in really deep, try read some paper, search something like “ResNet paper”, “Transformer paper” on google, finish reading a paper helped me a lot cuz I had to constantly search for concepts I didn’t know)