Jumping in to right a wrong. Nobody has mentioned Sebastian Lague on youtube. His programming demos are sheer magic and joy. He’s like the European Bob Ross of programming.

edit: https://youtube.com/channel/UCmtyQOKKmrMVaKuRXz02jbQ

• The Pragmatic Programmer, by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas: How to not suck at programming.
• Algorithms, by Robert Sedgewick: Stick to the early C or Pascal editions, later ones are full of language-specific Java, etc. distractions.
• Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley: Short snippets of how to design & optimize.
• SICP: Just do every exercise, take it seriously, you’ll learn super powers. Watching the lecture videos alongside is helpful, but the book and problem sets are mandatory.
• BASIC Computer Games, by David H. Ahl: The type-in listings are fairly hard to read & understand to newbies now, I suspect, but it’s still the master class in how to decompose gameplay problems into low-level programming.

Videos and podcasts won’t help you, they’re pleasant noise but you learn to program by programming, by taking a problem and solving it.

I know you specifically asked for books, videos and podcasts, but I have actually personally never found any books, videos or podcasts I tried super inspiring or helpful. The only thing I have done on occasion is to use Pluralsight courses to learn a particular language or platform really fast (Android development, React, …).

What I can really recommend though is to just read Hacker News and get inspired by what other people do. I find only about 10% or so actually interesting, but there’s always something fascinating.

Aside from that, I learned most of my programming knowledge (not necessarily engineering knowledge) from side projects. For about a year now I have worked on a push notification service called ntfy that truly fulfills me, and that forces me to constantly learn new things.