I personally think that the best way to start your programming course is with the Mark up languages such as XML and HTML
So basically starting out by learning how to build basic websites will really help you understand the basics.
That is where you start out with the logic of programming, putting codes together to get a nice output.
From there you can also immerse yourself in C programming. This is close to machine learning which will help you out with raw codes that tells computer what to do
If your goal is to build software way, then I'll recommend starting with Java programming. Although Android is slowly moving to kotlin programming language, Kotlin is more like a clean version of Java so you can totally start with Java.
Then you move to understand the IDE of Android apps which is the Android Studio.
After mastering android app development, it would be quite easy to start making IOS apps as well
After that, you're on the road to becoming God Mode in programming.