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Good luck with that, I've been "thinking of learning programming" for like four years and not making much progress. I mean, I've learned some (and already knew some from school), but I don't feel like I'm nearly to the point of being marketable with it. Coding jobs are still in demand but I think we need to stop pretending like it's this "best kept secret" career field anymore, you're gonna have a lot of competition.

Assuming you don't know anything already, I feel like it might be good to start with fundamentals, like learning the concepts of data structures, algorithms, objects, etc., though any people who have successful programming careers can feel free to correct me if that's bad advice. I just know that when I learned programming, we kind of jumped into the language more without the fundamentals, and now I have bad habits of just trying to get my projects functional, without focusing on "good practice". The good practice stuff isn't super important if you just want to make things for personal use, but if you're trying to make a portfolio you want your code to look good, not just execute the bare minimum goal. And, even though a lot of that stuff just seems almost strictly academic to me, it comes up a lot on coding interviews/tests so it's good to know.