Asklemmy

That's the toolbox fallacy. "If only i had good running shoes I would be motivated to run.".

1. Youre swapping motivation for anxiety, guilt and frustration. Youre better off paying someone on fiver to shout at you.

2. You won't survive programming if you can't get through this part. It doesn't stop taking effort after you've learned the basics.

3. The tutor won't make it painless, or make it go faster really, and people just end up being agry at the tutor.

You're much better off joining a community/discord of people learning the same thing, or finding a project/thing you care for, and using common motivational tricks. With youtube/Twitch, it's easier than ever to find people to help you.

I'm glad to see this is still around: https://exercism.org/

helped me learn when I was starting out 7-8 years ago

Sorry I can't actually answer your question, but in my experience, it's hard to learn actual programming in a classroom type setting. I got a 4 year degree from a state school in computer science, and I've been working as a software engineer since may of 2020 (and a student contractor for 2 years before that), and I think 90% of my experience was obtained on the job.

That being said, I do think finding a tutorial online for the type of project you want to learn is a great starting point, provided you have the basic knowledge of programming concepts. If you don't, I think w3schools is a great place to grab those. Private tutors or online classrooms are going to be expensive and the quality might not be guaranteed.

What I think you really need / want is guided, hands-on learning. Most languages and frameworks are free to download and use, and there's lots and lots of tutorials out there. A great basic one for full stack engineering is a making a To-Do List (django python back end, and either react or angular front end is a decently easy framework). It'll teach you basic front-end, back-end, and database concepts, and then you can play around with it whoever you want. I'd recommend uploading it to your personal github repo eith a README file talking about how to run it locally, so you can send it to possible employers. That's a big thing that a lot of companies ask for in the interview process.