Yeah me too. I am still sad thinking about the number of hours I spend messing with python environments and versions because I was told it was the “quick and easy” option for solving this or that small problem.*
Also worth mentioning Michael Hart’s intro course, which is a really shockingly well done way to ramp up from absolute zero, even for someone with very little code experience.
His book is what got me up to speed in 2015. I was visiting Chiang Mai and binged through the whole thing over a few days and then spent the next week cloning various personal projects I'd written with JS backends.
In under two weeks of opening Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial, I was already more productive with RoR than with the stack I'd been using professionally for 3+ years.
Also worth mentioning Michael Hart’s intro course, which is a really shockingly well done way to ramp up from absolute zero, even for someone with very little code experience.
* Which, in fairness, it mostly is. But also meh.