You need to figure out what the fukk you wanna do. If you want to be a programmer/developer, certs
SHOULD NOT be in your vocabulary. Also, if you a CS student, they gonna have you doing a lot of shyt in the curriculum that you
WILL NOT do in industry. My advice is to work with a high-level language from the jump (C# or Java), and learn how to use the frameworks and libraries available to you. In college, they make you write shyt like bubble sort and linear search algorithms and take classes for that shyt. You may think you a boss writing them shyts only to come out of school and see you nikkas that never been to college ahead of you because they know how to use the libraries where that code has already been written
. In industry, you NEED to know the frameworks because most of that code has been written for you already.
To learn to program, you need to...
1. Learn the fundamentals - (variable, data types, reference types/primitive types, iteration/repetition (while, for, do/while, foreach), selection (if, if/else, switching).
2. know when to use different data structures (arrays, Lists, stacks, queues, dictionary/maps, sets, etc.)
3. Have a CLEAR understanding of OOP.
4. Know how to navigate through the framework/library of the language because most code have been written for you.
5. Don't get too drowned into a language because 5 years from now that shyt could be obsolete. Just learn enough to write good code and keep it moving. People that become masters of a language and only know how to use THAT language can be in for a rude awakening when they gotta learn something new (old C/C++ developers trying to learn new languages and OOP concepts).