Buy one of those big arduino starter kits (aliexpress is not a bad source actually), fuck around and find out.
My preferred method is picking a project and starting to acquire knowledge to realize it. There is plenty of stuff on YT to learn from.
"The Art of Electronics" is brilliantly written bible on everything analog and some things digital, and it starts from pretty basic stuff. It is a bit pricy tho.
It follows a format on starting with something basic like "how amplifier" works, then going into details, all of them with real, useful examples and the whole road to figure out how to make those example from scratch.
It's not "guide to electronics" per se (although it does teach stuff well), as much as reference guide on "how to do X", except that the whole way to get X is explained so on top of recipe you're getting all the reasoning behind it.
My preferred method is picking a project and starting to acquire knowledge to realize it. There is plenty of stuff on YT to learn from.
"The Art of Electronics" is brilliantly written bible on everything analog and some things digital, and it starts from pretty basic stuff. It is a bit pricy tho.
It follows a format on starting with something basic like "how amplifier" works, then going into details, all of them with real, useful examples and the whole road to figure out how to make those example from scratch.
It's not "guide to electronics" per se (although it does teach stuff well), as much as reference guide on "how to do X", except that the whole way to get X is explained so on top of recipe you're getting all the reasoning behind it.
EEVBlog forums are also nice place to ask: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/