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 Honestly, no offense meant and I could do the same if talking about my industry.... but.  If I'm interested in learning how to code and all the resources and suggestions I see are:

New to code pleb.... FOSS projects....low hanging fruit for badges and green streaks on gethub, who's own documentation is just as jargon soaked.

Now, I know what some of that means but, brand spanking new, I wanna learn to code bros?  It's the shallow end for most of you, I know but it's too much to absorb when I first need a jargon dictionary to find out where to even start. 
 I got interested in climbing a few years back to save a bunch of money on tree work for limbs over my house.  It was kinda the same except I was able to find more primers to get me started.  Now I can do my own tree work... SAFELY, and I've helped some family and friends with my new skill.  There is a lot of stuff to know and jargon, teniques, tools, styles, math and such that go into climbing for fun or work.  However, finding a place to start with that was a whole lot easier than getting started doing any kind of developing or coding, at least as far as my efforts are concerned. 
 Try boot.dev 
 Thank you!  I will certainly check it out.  Zap you later.  My setup doesn't zap from my phone app. 
 Okay!  That's what I'm talking about.  I started on the free stuff.  Will do some more then probably sign up.  Again, thank you so very much.