Best site for beginning coders : starts with a video then has a "video" of coding that you can pause and interact with. Very friendly and simple to start with.
It is a good language to start with too.
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/p...
Ideally, you would watch videos from an intro course at stanford or MIT. Those are known for uploading such lecture series.
Its a fast way to get a job. Its an obstacle in understanding programming. Have to know what you want out of this.
Learning languages need to be simple and friendly, not practical. Not saying that they shouldn't understand the full stack eventually.
If you don't understand pointers, you won't ever amount to much. Better to at least be aware that there's something important that you don't get than to be lulled into this "js everythings a mess and its ok that way" nonsense.