Getting Started in Computer Programming Questions

Last year I learned my first computer program language by accident. I hand copy texts using archival ink to imported artisan paper/scrolls from india and nepal so I can get a feel for how big historic texts actually were, and saw something about Lambda Calculus and jus started copying it all down. It was apparently the first programming language ever developed. I don't know what to do with it otherwise. I vaguely recall programs I believe called AAB++ and Haskell are based on it, but when I looked at Haskell you had to know C++ too.

I like logic in philosophy and know there are database languages for induction.... but I'm uncertain where to get my start. I want to do it on a computer, not a android app, preferably free and at my own pace. Not some coding bootcamp. I have no idea how to load it up on a computer though. Clueless.

What options exist?

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dirge

python is likely your best option for first programming language; although as someone with a cs degree, I find it an extremely offensive language. there are tons of pages about installing the interpreter (so technically it's more of a scripting language than a true programming language, but that's largely semantics).
for simple database stuff, I'd start with sqlite, it does everything through commandline/api and files, so there's not really a db process to keep running. although if you have intentions of growing to a very large database, SQL goes out the window immediately and you end up using something more like cassandra or mongodb