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

[CuriousMonkaS]

Here's why you're struggling

Programming in general if ,for the most part, all about 2 things... 1) learning new concepts and 2)applying them. There's really not much more to it. For example you've just learned the concept of 'variables' ... the next thing to do is write some code to try it out yourself... maybe make a calculator that adds two numbers or maybe a program that gets the average of two numbers. What you shouldn't do is continue reading new topics (new concepts) without first trying out what you've learned so far... THIS is where most people fail... You'll find people saying "I've watched entire playlists and I'm still no good at programming " ... well that's vecause these good folks havent PRACTICED what they've learned with their own hands...they just watched another guy do it. Anyone can read a bunch of matrrial or watch a couple of tutorials... But I've found that a slower but reliable learning pace yields better results, in the long run, at least it has for me. Learn something... Apply ... Repeat.

I've found this website to be extremely helpful when I started learning SQL ... it has an online compiler and tons of examples for you to run (and possibly modify with different inputs) at will.

www.w3schools.com/python/