Pixophir Check out Grant Abbits website. He's got courses that I think are cheap plus a lot of free ones and he's really good. You don't have to worry about 3.0 because the basics have been the same since about 2.8 or so. You don't need a second monitor. A pen tablet might be nice for some painting tasks. A desktop computer is probably a little better, but even if it's a 13 inch, I would get started right now. Start with his beginner courses.
I've been studying game development for years, and not once have I really needed a second monitor. Heck, I can run Godot on a laptop if my graphics don't have to be superior. I would like a second monitor for certain things, but otherwise it's not a bad setup if you need to export to the desktop and import from the desktop straight to your Godot project.
If you're working with 3D, and you ever do need superior graphics, top-notch characters, and excellent rigging, you could try to save up for grabbing Daz Studio as well. It's free, but it can get expensive when you use it for real projects. However, if you can afford it, the results are stellar- and they have buildings/props/locations you can use as well.
These are characters from the 3D game called Psychotic, which I've been itching to get done some day. In the last character in the list, a closer shot of my icon, I did some editing in Unity- added the brain and light bulb-hat, and the lights, and whatever, but it still gets my point across. You can tell from this that he is actually a light source with glowing, alien skin.
The main character:
Extra:
Some villains
Speaking of, I am on the lookout for 3D horror assets to match the characters. I can easily find 2D assets, but 3D is another matter. Anyone know a good place with such models? I won't spoil the game, though.
Speaking of tutorials, I've got a better idea. Instead of written or video tutorials, we just need someone to embed the godot IDE into a game. The game sets you tasks to accomplish, then you use the embedded IDE to finish them. If you get too frustrated, the game pulls up a copy of the ideal project to compare with, but doesn't let you edit it -- you have to make the changes in your project.
That ought to be easy to do. 
duane Instead of written or video tutorials, we just need someone to embed the godot IDE into a game.
They did this.
https://gdquest.mavenseed.com/courses/learn-to-code-from-zero-with-godot
Nerdzmasterz Anyone know a good place with such models? I won't spoil the game, though.
I get all my art from here:
https://www.cgtrader.com/
Nerdzmasterz If you haven't already, check out Blend Swap for free models. It's kind of hit and miss, but you might find something useful, however you have to check the license.
https://www.blendswap.com/
cybereality Apparently that game is poorly advertised, I've never seen it before but would not have been opposed to trying it back when.
I wouldn't mind giving a go at a programming game, as I like stuff like that. Then I could post it free somewhere. I have to work on a few projects that pay first, though.
It's not a game. It's an interactive tutorial app. They had a Kickstarter last year I think, and it's in beta, I don't believe they finished it yet. So maybe that is why it wasn't advertised much.
I'm thinking they should have a hacker game on it. Program a robot to retrieve objects, hack into security systems, and stopping a psycho from destroying the world as we know it.
Here's my thing- so many times, I have heard about "how hard it is to code".
Um...
What's so hard about print(6 + 8), or get_node("Button").show()? 
Boy the tab key is kind of strange when entering code. You press it and the cursor disappears and the code doesn't appear to indent, but then when you post it, it's indented. Just have to get used to it I guess.
I don't even indent. I just hit enter to make new lines as needed, and then select the whole code and use the insert code button. It indents automatically.
Got the solar panels for my new place today. 3 out of 26 were broken. Hope i get a replacement without having to seek legal advice. Will see tomorrow.
Is it hard to code ? I am not a good coder nor have I ever officially learned or studied this, all self studying. I am currently porting an opengl renderer of mine (terrain lod stuff) to vulkan. Want to see if I can ever combine this with Godot, since Godot makes integration so easy (from what I read). With deferred rendering and Vulkan this should not be too impossible, though there are some things to solve. Deferred because there is no spoon .. errr mesh in the LOD version I have, so not much lighting and effects can be done in the geometry stage where positions are calculated, just vertex normals.
Apart from that it is trivial stuff, no abstraction, no platform indenpendent things, just straight plain C++, I even can look up some Vulkan recipes on the web, but yet, I find Vulkan to be an incomprehensible mess of lose ends. Did you know that because they run out of identifier names or realized that certain functionality needs a new internal treatment for things like structures of functions they start to enumerate them, like "vkVeryLongAndObfuscatedFunctionName2". Does "industry forged" mean "fy indy developers" ?
Just realized that I am a bit on the negative side today. Nevermind ... :-)
Think I go out for a couple of cold ones in a bar by the harbour.
We all have bad days.
I taught myself to code as well, so I know a thing or two about it.
The catch is that it is possibly not the learning that gets you. It happened to me, it happened to Thomas Brush, and that means it could easily happen to anyone.
I'm not saying this to scare you, but to warn you to never quit, no matter how things get.
What causes the problem?
When you start off, you are unsure about anything. After that, you learn more and more and get excited- and it feels amazing. Once you reach the peak of learning to program, however- not understanding everything but knowing enough to program with little help- the excitement fades, and you sort of plunge into this... depressive state, I guess? It's awful.
If you manage to endure that, however, the downward spiral eventually flattens. It won't be like it was, but you won't hate your game engine anymore.
At least that's how I would explain it.
Other than that really bad state, coding is surprisingly simple. 
Coding is actually not difficult. It takes a long time to learn, but conceptually it is simple. You ask the computer to do something, and it does precisely what you ask. The issue is that most people don't understand the question they are asking. If you know exactly what you are asking, then translating that to a computer is straight forward.
Another factor is to decide what programming language you want to learn, and that would influence what you can program later on. C++ is incredible in its power, but also used more in lower-level game engine building. There's nothing wrong with it, of course, in AAA companies, they most likely use C++ to build their own game engines or whatever. Other companies prefer Python or C#. The medical field, for instance, uses Python- most likely because it's simpler to understand and it gets the job done so they can focus on more- or more important- things than one certain program.
I guess another question is, how much time are you willing to spend learning? IMO, GDScript would be the easiest, followed by C#, and then C++ is the hardest. It simply doesn't use words that are... English? A lot of it seems to involve symbols rather than words.
Programming is a lot like filling out tax forms. There's some simple math involved. You're encouraged to do things the "right" way, but it can be very rewarding to be innovative... unless you screw up. And, most of it is boilerplate that shouldn't be necessary, but you're dealing with a big, dumb machine, so you have to fill it in.
And, like filing your taxes, all you have to do is read the documentation and follow the directions.
Nerdzmasterz Another factor is to decide what programming language you want to learn
Programming languages are for humans, not computers. This is another misunderstanding. The computer only understands binary, but there is almost no human that can write anything even mildly complex in binary. So the programming language is for us to understand. So pick the one you are most comfortable with. It also depends what you are doing. The language to write a shell script, or a GUI app, or a 3D game, or browser plug-in, will obviously be different. But it ultimately doesn't matter. I just pick the best tool for the job. As I've been coding for so long, I can start a project in a language I've never seen before and it's not an issue. I already have the program designed in my head, so learning the syntax for a new language can be done in like 2 or 3 days.
