[gary17the]

Learn a strongly-typed programming language (so the compiler can guide you on how to fix your mistakes), preferably with garbage collection (so the compiler can take care of memory management for you), preferably one that supports modern language constructs (so you can later on switch from one programming language to another without a lot of re-learning). The obvious choices are Golang, Rust, Typescript, Swift. I would probably recommend Golang, since it's the simplest and can be applied to various problem domains: command-line utilities, web development, etc. All you need to get started is YouTube online tutorials.