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I have now coded a Ruby program that asks for my first name, then last, then middle, and then greets me by full name. It works. I'm calling today a win.

(And I am ignoring the little voice in the back of my head complaining about Google-esque real-name policies in context of this practice program. Because the point of this exercise is to [re]learn how to manipulate strings and variables, not to facilitate communication with people whose family name precedes their personal name or who have mononyms or some non-one number of middle names or whatnot. It is not as though anybody but me is seeing this program!)

Okay, so.

zero2perl is probably not ever getting off the ground. Does anyone have any recs for learning to code, ideally in a self-paced and minimally-expensive manner? (Or more accurately relearning, because I have coded before, just not since high school. Unless we count HTML, which we are not counting.) I don't know what I would be doing with this skill—though brain is telling me that trans-and-nonbinary-friendly period tracker app with on-or-off-hormonal-contraception functionality and a variety of appearance options including death metal (as previously discussed somewhere on these interwebs) would be a good first project—it just seems like a useful skill to have. I don't even know what programming language I'd want to start with. DW uses Perl, I believe, and I believe AO3 uses Ruby, but beyond that I am clueless. What even does one use to program for Android / Kindle Fire? (ETA: apparently Java)