"Learning to program isn't fundamentally about learning what text to type in to a box somewhere. It's about learning to think computationally."
But learning how to start programming isn't about that at all, even a little bit.
Writing your first program is learning what a text editor is (no, it's not quite the same as a word processor), maybe learning about the command line interface on your computer for the first time, learning about the various dependencies between the tools and libraries you need to install to get started. There is Googling and discovering tutorials that are out of date or have mistakes in them, and figuring out what to do then.
But learning how to start programming isn't about that at all, even a little bit.
Writing your first program is learning what a text editor is (no, it's not quite the same as a word processor), maybe learning about the command line interface on your computer for the first time, learning about the various dependencies between the tools and libraries you need to install to get started. There is Googling and discovering tutorials that are out of date or have mistakes in them, and figuring out what to do then.