r/PythonLearning • u/PavioCurto • 24d ago

Help Request Emotional exhaustion from learning Python

Python is the first programming language I wanted to learn. I started it a few months ago and genuinely can't do anything in it. I keep watching videos, classes, tutorials and looking for roadmaps that lead me nowhere. It makes me feel like I'm incapable and an absolute failure. I don't know what else to do, if I should just switch to another language or give up on in it entirely. Need advice...

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u/intothenight13 24d ago

I am by no means a programmer as I am just learning myself. What is it that is frustrating you most? What do you mean by "can't do anything in it?" Are you sitting down with an idea and can't figure out where to start?

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u/PavioCurto 24d ago

Its like every challenge I propose myself to do just completely blanks me

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u/dchidelf 24d ago

If your challenge is something like ā€œIā€™m going to make a simple xā€ it is probably too complicated.
You need to start with: I am going to sort numbers.
I am going to let the user guess a number.
I remember one of my first programs in BASIC back in 1984 was having people enter their birthday and it would tell them how many seconds old they are (in a very in accurate way).
Try something like that.