I'm also a self taught programmer, my first book about programming was "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", then I tried to learn C and I didn't understand anything of what I read until I find "Introduction to Computing Systems" by Yale Patt and Sanjay Patel, great book.
Edit: also did 200 Codewars katas to practice, then started to build things.
Edit: also did 200 Codewars katas to practice, then started to build things.