does anyone have advice on how to get into coding shaders...? there seems to be a lot of different things to make them in and i still don't really understand em. i'm wondering what a good first project is...

i understand them conceptually but in practice i'm just like.
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you can make shaders in gamemaker and and there are a lot of online "toys" for making shaders and you can put shaders over other games with certain tools... i don't know where the first step is.