I want to point to a comment about the (libre afaik) game Widelands. It's similar to Settlers but why I'm posting about it here is because there are three advanced coders who started as programming beginners. They learned programming "on the way".This might encourage quite a lot of beginners to not give up but try to start learning and coding.
https://www.widelands.org/news/2022/May ... ordfriese/
Greetings
Peter