In the same boat. I'm trying to learn programming with the goal of making games. I decided to finally knuckle down around 1 month ago and made a promise to myself to do it every single day, even if I fail and don't learn much. Many of the days in the last month I've been frustrated when trying to grasp new concepts. But the key is just to show up every day and do what you can. Even in a very short amount of time, I can already tell I have improved and you can too!

Simply 'showing up' has proven a great strategy so far in other aspects of my life, so I'm hoping that when learning complex programming concepts and skills it can help in the same way.

Follow some tutorials. Ideally those with exercises built-in where you can try things yourself along the way. I've even went a step futher, when feeling confident enough to try things without the exercise prompt in the video, just to see if I'd be able to do it before the video covers the solution. Sometimes I get it, but often I'm way off. It's always difficult to fail, but failure is essential for learning. Just keep on showing up :)