@Becky Choosing a programming language often depends on the target use. Will it be a Command-Line Interface tool? A Graphical User Interface? A web page? A program on a controller circuit (Arduino, etc...)?

From there, languages have affordances.

I think I want the to-do program to have a gui as I'm still not great at using a command line.... probably run on a "standard" desktop computer, if such a thing exists.... computers are weird but I've relied on @silverwizard a lot and I'm trying to think outside that while also learning from him

@Becky In the programming world, unfortunately there's no such thing as a standard desktop computer. So much so that the current most popular way of writing "portable" programs is to embed an entire web browser within the program.

😂 I kinda suspected this, but I'm still new to it all and have learned it all by accident or in roundabout ways

@Becky So, first target one specific system with one specific front end. This will greatly reduce the scope of the required learning.

I started learning programming with command line programs in C because of the low learning overhead. I was also taught COBOL for file manipulation and Java for Object-Oriented Programming. In parallel, I had SQL classes on an Oracle system, but no integration with a programming language until my final project after 2 years of full-time classes.

It was a long process and it started pretty small, so I think that's what you should do as well to make it palatable.