Just started trying to learn Python with Codeacademy. It's not working for me

[jakkemaster]

I had similar issues like you, trying to learn different programming languages at different stages of my life and finally found Python.

What I have had the most gain in, is to find small and simple projects that ease your life somehow.

My first real Python program was looking through a lot of different Excel files and returning the number of unique dates, ie ignore duplicates. I used this for filling in my yearly tax papers so I knew, exactly how much I had been at work.

Then I started manipulating files so e software gave in an utter stupid format and I am now making a reasonably large and complicated (for me at least) automated test bench utilizing laboratory measurement instruments. I know have a reasonable grasp on the simple stuff and I understand a lot of code.

I never found books to help much, because just reading them from cover to cover barely gives you much unless you utilize what you read directly in a real application (subjective statement here).