[thomastjeffery]

Start learning another programming language. Maybe two or three. They aren't like spoken languages: there are only a few words, and syntax is explicit.

Programming languages will feel a bit foreign since there are different paradigms involved, but you have a solid perspective to start with.

Since you know bash, you know the environment your programs will run in. Start by learning simple IO with stdin, stdout, and stderr. The rest is basically just different methods to organize your code.