Learning to Code is Easy: Here's How to Teach Yourself - Scott H Young

Starting programming is super overwhelming because there are a bajillion things to learn and you have no idea where to start. Early classes tend to be populated with people who have taught themselves programming before. Thus, you may think you’re not smart enough to program because of an unfair comparison. (I once knew a woman who got a masters in civil engineering, which is much harder than intro coding, and she told me she wasn’t smart enough to code because of her first class.