How do I learn to program?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hello,
I am a junior in high school probably going to major in biology. My motive for learning how to program is its use in scientific research and learning the subject could gain me research opportunities. I have recognized the importance of computer science/programming in research in general and its growing prevalence in the world is more cause for me to learn it.

How should I learn how to program? Which topic should I start with? Where should I start? I want to be at the skill level so that I know enough programming if a professor asks me if I know how to code, I can confidently say yes.

Thank you

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You could take an introductory course in school or online. I don’t know whether or not you’ll be able to “confidently” say that you can code, since that really depends on how much skill the task requires, but there are a lot of good courses online for learning how to program.

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https://lifehacker.com/top-10-ways-to-teach-yourself-to-code-1684250889