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May I suggest hacker rank : https://www.hackerrank.com/
Other than programming languages, it also has courses on algorithms, AI, data structures,  linux shell etc.

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You could code this project in C, although it'll be a lot more work than doing it in something like Python. Knowing some C might help make learning another language faster though.

Python is a great language for beginners. It's very versatile and you can continue to use it as you grow to be better at programming.
 
An API is an application programming interface. It is used as a layer between hardware and software. It more or less helps the programmer in building a certain type of program.
 
Web scraping is using an application to gather data from a website. Stock scrapers are very common examples of this. They take data from a website (NASDAQ) and return data from that website (The price of a single share of Apple stock)

Whatever you decide to go with, you'll probably be able to find a library to work with it.
 
 
To expand on what EpicAdom said,
 
Some websites allow you to request data from them with an API. You make a request to their API, and they give you back data. The data is usually in JSON format these days but you could probably run into something else, like XML, as well.
 
If a website doesn't have this API for you, then you grab a web pages HTML source and then manually extract the information you need from it. Here's an example.

Nope, the data speed is dependent of your LAN speeds(so 10/100/1000mbps on most consumer routers) and disk speeds in the NAS. The only time internet speeds effect your NAS performance is if you are doing something with your NAS outside of your house.

As i recall, Linus did a video on are all Ghz the same : 
 
about the skylake, it has a new chipset so you can upgrade, DDR4 RAM, although that doesn't mke much of a difference, more PCIe lanes. etc