Steps towards learning programming as beginners

You may have lot of questions on how to start learning programming and most of all how to self learn them. The first programming language that I started learning was python which was very interesting and also fun. When I ran my first program the happiness that I felt was immense. You too could do this. These days there are lot of courses available on various platforms. Some of the platforms are Coursera, Khan Academy, edx and Codecademy.