Best ways to learn how to program?

Learning how to code effectively.
Is codeacademy a very good place to learn?

just keep watchimg tuts on youtube and keep learning on tempo projects, keep your head up, and solve those buggies :L

Download snips and try to understand their coding logic, the fastest way out there.

You have to understand what, what does and not just learning the code by heart this is the biggest mistake you can do... Watch good Tutorials who talk about that and explain why and what it does. Also i would recommend you to buy a book. I never read books and i hate it but programming books are different its not a big deal to read it before sleeping but it burns in brain. beside that i think udemy is not that bad (e-learning platform) but in most cases if you really want to know how to program and what the code does behind start with C then C++ and so on. Ofcourse you can start with that what you want but its recommeded because if you've done C and C++ you know what Pointer and that shit is and whats the code doing in other programming language in the background.