Are you a perfectionist like me, and overthinking the hell out of what you need to get right? And therefore never starting or putting yourself out there?

• yep absolutely

a couple of things to add when thinking about programing, start simple a simple cash script will give most of the functional programing details then move onto to something like python when you hit a limitation its about knowing the simple constructs like

if elif for while def (for a function) except (error handling)

once you have understood these concepts then look at the big picture of what your trying to create and then incorporate them it a bit easier this way I find and then you get the idea of data structures later like maps, key-value pairs objects etc