Across this vast Fediverse, I have encountered a trend of people answering questions with esoteric programming language speaking in tongues that I don’t understand, including under my own posts. I am a Boomer when it comes to coding and I am only 27. I don’t even know where I would start to learn it because programming is so diverse. I want to feel like I know what’s going on but I don’t. Coding is the future and the future is now and I am lagging severely behind. I guess I’m asking where a bumbling novice like me can learn more about where to start when it comes to programming.
Try “the Odin project”, which has an amazingly active community.
But before you try too much, once you’ve learned to set up any programming tools, just use them to have fun. Find a way in which you can use programming in relation to your hobbies.
With JavaScript you can manipulate any webpage you see or create your own interactive webapp. Even if it’s just a few ugly buttons and text fields, you could make an app that calculates good builds for a videogame you like, for example.
If you want to interact with a windows operating system you can’t go wrong with C# using visual studio. This will literally allow you to manipulate files, folders or automate anything you want from the operating system.
Try to find something that is fun and just enjoy yourself with small apps before you try to go too fast.
I agree. I can only learn languages by having an idea of something that’ll excite me. Making a to-do app rarely teaches me anything since I don’t have fun doing it.