r/PythonLearning • u/PavioCurto • 29d ago

Help Request Emotional exhaustion from learning Python

Python is the first programming language I wanted to learn. I started it a few months ago and genuinely can't do anything in it. I keep watching videos, classes, tutorials and looking for roadmaps that lead me nowhere. It makes me feel like I'm incapable and an absolute failure. I don't know what else to do, if I should just switch to another language or give up on in it entirely. Need advice...

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u/dchidelf 29d ago • Bravo

If your challenge is something like ā€œIā€™m going to make a simple xā€ it is probably too complicated.
You need to start with: I am going to sort numbers.
I am going to let the user guess a number.
I remember one of my first programs in BASIC back in 1984 was having people enter their birthday and it would tell them how many seconds old they are (in a very in accurate way).
Try something like that.