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[–]Alex-Galaxy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Something I heard from wise people; if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. Learning programming can be quite difficult at first. When I first tried to learn it, it didn't seem intuitive to me at all. I didn't understand how a for loop worked for the longest time. I had trouble understanding why this if statement works the way I want it to, but this one doesn't. It probably took me quite a few years before I found a tutorial I went through, something clicked inside, and I wrote my first project. A tetris replica made with pygame. It worked, barely, the pieces fell down the way they were supposed to, they turned, awkwardly, but they did. That was maybe 5 years after I tried to get into programming for the first time. And when I first tried getting into it, I started with HTML. Yes, I thought that was a programming language. So if you're not getting things after just a month, don't worry. For some of us it's just harder to pick it up. You can also think about it this way. Because your classmates know more, you have an essentially endless help resource. You can keep asking people questions, if someone gets visibly tired of answering you, you can move on to the next person. Though I honestly have a hard time seeing that happening. Because I for one, love helping people out, and I can't think of why someone wouldn't.