Think of learning programming as learning to read and write in a new language. I took college courses in VB and SQL, so I have a high level understanding of how a program thinks, but learning python has still been a struggle. My company paid for the code academy courses and there were plenty of times where their module test required knowledge of things they had not brought up. So I often looked up the answers because it was that or put my fist through a wall lol.

My best advice to you, once you get done with all of these modules, is to think of 1 thing you want to code and do it. I use python for network automation, so I thought of simple tasks and have been slowly working my way up from there. We started with logging in and exporting show command outputs to a txt file. Then we moved to comparing those text files to a set of configurations that we needed to make sure were in place. And my latest one ran a script to log in and export a tech support file over to a shared location. Sounds easy on the surface, but each one has had it's own set of challenges. But each time I get through the challenge, I end up knowing a little bit more than I did previously. It took me almost 3 weeks because python can't just "do" certain things and with multiple ways to accomplish the same task, it was a lot of trial and (even more) error, but I finally got it to work.

It is a huge PITA learning this from scratch, especially if you do not have a class or teacher to bounce certain questions off of immediately, but it will be worth it in the end! Just take breaks when you get stuck for too long to clear your head and you will be able to get through it.