There are so many good resources that weren't available when I was learning. Online, and a good in-person mentor helps too.

Limor and crew does a great job: https://learn.adafruit.com Or start with the Arduino ecosystem: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-an-arduino/all

I have accidentally joined to a Discord server which folks interested in programming. They're trying and poking around in an informed manner. These guys professional programmers (or aspire to be), and interacting them somehow broke my chains, and I'm learning and improving like the old days.

So, interacting with interested parties really helps.