Hello HN, I am 30, changing career to coding. My current job sucks, am not interested in my current job. I am noob to programming. What do you suggest?
The best free (and purchaseable) book out there for novices-to-intermediates is "Automating the Boring Stuff with Python". Not only is it well-written, it captures the main gist of why programming is useful in a variety of life's use cases: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
I also recommend this thread [0]. This thread has same question, kind of "Python 101". One of the answer suggested for beginner, intermediate, and advance levels.
I recommend this to many friends as it’s a great resource, but I have to always apologise for the name every time I recommend it, I wish it would re-brand, I turn the apology into a joke, but I feel like it’s still off-putting