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Book - How to Design Programs - https://htdp.org/2022-2-9/Book/index.html

Course - CS50 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQjrBD2T382_R182iC2g...

Both require no prerequisite knowledge and are very well regarded.

HtDP vs the course by Gregor Kiczales? And why HtDP if I may ask?

It's not "vs", that course is based on the book. I can see that you've posted a few threads like this one in the past week - in that time you could have made some progress in your learning instead of repeatedly asking where to start.

HTDP is exactly designed for beginners and the software tooling in the form of Racket is available as a batteries included download.

When Kiczales course first came online via Coursera, I took the first live version. It was a great curriculum, but that's an entirely different structure than a book, and with the automation that now infects MOOC's an entirely different structure than a synchronous academic class.

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