I am a CS student in 3rd semester of my bachelors with no practical experience in the field because i never got a job. I havent made any projects or ever written that much code and i only the basics of writing any code. i have always thought of developing such a prowess in the field that allows me to analyse and comprehend the funtioning and purpose of any random piece of code i encounter.

So how can i start? im already 22 and the uni stuff is so demanding leaving me not that much free time on my hand but im willing to manage if i can learn in a lucrative manner.

i have always used AI to write code and its never really felt promising enough so i think i oughta know how to code myself in order to reap whatever benefits AI can provide me. I wanna start fast but steady and try to learn everything from the very basic debugging to databases, APIs, Pipelines and whatnot.

I would strenuously appeciate it were someone to give me just a little nudge.