New to this, ready to actually work with courses

so many different places to learn computer science, I am gonna just stick with this one so hopefully I get to a point where I know that I am actually Able to do things on my own.
I use a MacBook air M4 with 16 gb
and currently enrolled at Colorado Tech online for data science, its my first year and I know that that won’t be enough to become a Data Science professional. So tell me anything that I should know it would be greatly appreciated.

and one thing I want to say is that AI is cool I like it and can see that it will prevail in the future but so many different AI things going on now a days makes it so annoying.