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I learned using python.
I've yet to find anything that would have been a better place to start, and the concepts you pick up coding almost anything are extremely transferable.
A small project is good because it doesn't just teach you the basics, it makes you apply what you learn to actually do stuff.
I write little python scripts to do various things all the time. Most recently I made one that automatically posts the next comic strip to !moomin@sopuli.xyz.
My recommendation would be to come up with something like that, then start figuring out how to do each step of accomplishing the task you want the code to do, then putting it all together. Look things up a lot, use
print()often, and trial and error your way to the goal.You could also read guides or watch videos, but personally I learn WAY faster by just doing.
Reading the code, making changes based on how I think something should work, then being proven right/wrong also seems to give me a better understanding than just following instructions.