I learned programming in 2013, I was asking questions on stack overflow constantly while learning, people there were super friendly and supportive and answered my questions. SO was pivotal for me learning so fast.. Ive been a game programmer ever since.. This year I learned web-dev and made my 1st commercial web app. SO is totally dead though, utterly useless these days, but I used chatGPT to fill the same role and it worked great. Its a shame about SO though.