Starting a dev journey

I'm a beginner, but not entirely a newbie. I learned BASIC in the 80s as a kid, html + css as a 20-something, but then hardly did anything with any code after that because I was more focused on other things. But I'm at a point in my life where I can focus on learning to code, and I'm having fun with it. I've got some apps I want to create and games I want to build. Not necessarily to monetize them, but because I just want to build them. I enjoy building skills to create things just for the sake of it. I've also got personal independent research interests that would benefit from some data analysis skills, and coding helps with that a whole lot. I'm currently in college full-time, remote **from a university whose campus is less than three miles from my house because I'm a **hermit. Finishing up a philosophy degree I started and then paused two decades ago. I'm taking CSC-120 as an gen ed elective for that degree. Python programming. Having assignments and due dates means I'm actually wor