Don’t know whether they do, but have you heard of Liberapay?

This is gold advice. Thank you.

I will give it a try. Thanks for sharing

We do

This is why I said it should never be done outside of a VM or sandbox. But you are right, this is playing with fire haha.

Do you have a virtual machine, or a filesystem that you could mess with?
A good project idea would be to manipulate files on your system. Sort them, duplicate them, add programmatically one line to their content. The possibilities are plenty and you can see the result of your code.
Besides that, look for tutorial repositories on Github (or codeberg.org).
Last but not least, VSCode is my personal favorite, but you could check out PyCharm for beginning, as it has more features out of the box.