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You are starting a journey which is not short, that will be full of amazing things but also frustration. You also mentioned in a post that you want to create a videogame like EU4 and HOI4. I think that is a good goal to have, but also a quite ambitious one.
In my view, you should focus on finding a way to learn programming that keeps you motivated and prevents you from quitting early in the process. Choices of programming languages, technologies, platforms and things with fancy names should be done with that in mind.
So, how to learn programming? I think that you should...
So, where exactly to start learning? I think that you could... (different options)
There are many options, and you will hear a lot of recommendations of what worked for other people. That is fine, but you need to find what works for you ๐
Thank you for the large ammount of advice shared!
No problem ๐
Interestingly enough, these days I have been thinking about resuming my experiments within game development. It's not a field I am super experienced in, but just for the sake of knowledge sharing...
I started a small project in MonoGame with C#. It is a low~ish level framework, just as I wanted, because I wanted to avoid learning a full-blown engine (such as Godot, which I tried before going with MonoGame). Not that I am recommending this particular track for your situation, though, but based on what I am doing in MonoGame, I think it could be a good way for you (if you chose this track) to be pragmatic (making something) while still forcing you to learn programming. The framework still takes care of some things such as the game loop.
I also created an account in Exercism, one of the communities I mentioned before, because I wanted to mentor someone and they offered this posibility. Whereas I didn't find exactly what I was looking for, I found the website to be quite pleasant to use, so I am slightly more inclined towards recommending that you consider using it ๐
Exercism is really nice to learn a language without getting overwhelmed, and also trains you into the kind of coding challenges that are asked on job interviews. I also want to mention codingame.com which is a bit more advanced and has very game like problems (mostly AI stuff) that you can solve in a fun environment