TL;DR: guided tutorials creating visual effects through visual code is the easiest onramp to coding.
For folks who don’t have several hours a day to devote to acquiring a new profession, you can still learn programming painlessly over time using visual code to program games.
I’ve ordered these from easiest and most playful to most like real programming. If one stumps you, go back to an easier one until you’re comfortable and confident again. Practice a few times a week or, even better, a little bit each day.
- Scratch Jr on the iPad or Android
- Scratch in a browser
- Blockly shows how visual code compares to textual code
- Khan Academy’s Computer Programming course
- Draw things in javascript with https://p5js.org/
Once you realize that you can code and figure stuff out, you may be ready to prepare for a full time job programming. Check out my other posts geared towards that.