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.
I have been looking for a excuse to try again to learn Haskell. Also looking for some interesting book to learn material in order to try to get my son interested in science. Thanks for this.
Thanks, last week I wrote my first (very simple) recursive descent parser in Rust, for a little program to help my son with his math homework (combined operations). Always looking for personal uses for what I learn everyday.
I check out Hacker News everyday but this is my first post. I had never been a person who likes computers until the COVID lockdowns began. Some day I opened a Python course advertisement, I started the course but I got no computer to code the exercises, so I installed Termux on my 80$ Android phone and bought a 7$ external keyboard in order to do the Python exercises. Since then I have read several books about Linux and programming and bought my first laptop in order to continue with my self-taugh programming journey, all thanks to Termux.
Disclaimer: I'm not a native English speaker, so please forgive any mistake.
Edit: also did 200 Codewars katas to practice, then started to build things.