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I taught myself to program in Fortran back in the mod 1970s before I had access to a computer to try out any of my programs on.
I'd imagine that learning to program where you actually have a computer available to try things out on would be much easier.
On the other hand, I have seen a lot of JavaScript written by people who have taught themselves where the script looks like it is a badly written version of a script intended for Netscape 4. This highlights that there are several different ways that people can learn how to program in a particular language and that copying badly written code by other people or learning from a long outdated source (eg. attempting to learn JavaScript from w3schools) will mean you learn how to write garbage that works rather than being able to do it properly (usually with about half the amount of code).
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