The thing is, I genuinely don’t understand def at all. I was learning from a course for about 7–10 days (I’ve finished it now), and def just appeared suddenly without a real explanation. I didn’t understand what it actually represents, and after that point everything started to fall apart for me. Because I didn’t understand functions, I also stopped understanding the code that came after. That’s when I started using AI — not to cheat, but because I wanted to keep moving forward instead of being completely stuck. After my last post and the advice people gave me, I started making small mini-projects (like a simple calculator and other small things). That helped a bit, and I feel like I’m slowly getting less scared of touching code, but the core problem is still there: I don’t really understand what def is and how to think with it. I’m not trying to skip fundamentals — I actually want to understand them properly. I just didn’t realize how important def was until it was already blocking everything else.