Best new resources to learn programming + AI workflows?

I'm older, and in the past have dabbled with php, python, web frameworks (django), some ecommerce gateways, but my code was pretty atrocious. A lot of my experience was more from the early 2000s though and I'm quite rusty. I have a lot of time on my hands and want to be able to rapidly build things now. One complaint I had in the past was that documentation and tutorials were just horrible for learning anything. Video is kind of a slow way to learn. What are some of the most efficient learning platforms right now if I wanted to be quite efficient at: - Simple backends (python fine, open to others) for authentication, database storage, fairly simple crud interfaces - API libraries/wrappers - Easiest way to manage environments and deploy (i.e. uv + git to where now? Digital ocean? Try something like Render? - I'm weakest at front end for sure. React/etc stuff just seems so finnicky and annoying to me and not really how I want to spend most of my time so open to just re-using some reasonable framework stuff like shadcdn or other Good interactive courses? Affordable online courses? AI-based tutoring?