am having problems on many things so far i feel like i don't recall everything i have been learning up to now

in regards to this code challenge, you need to make sure you are properly setting up your function num_teachers(). In the challenge, num_teachers() takes a single argument which will be a dictionary of Treehouse teachers. You need to return an integer of the total number of teachers.

1st step would be provide your num_teachers function with an argument to pass your teachers dict into, like so:

def num_teachers(teachers):
     ...

Next set a variable (in this case named count) equal to 0 prior to going into the for loop. Witin the for loop set count to its current value + 1. So for each item in the teachers dict, the count variable will increase by 1. After the for loop completes, return count to get the total (int) of teachers in the dict.

My solution is:

teachers = {
    "Andrew Chalkley": ["jQuery Basics", "Node.js Basics"],
    "Kenneth Love": ["Python Basics", "Python Collections"],
}

def num_teachers(teachers):
    count = 0
    for teacher in teachers:
        count += 1
    return count

num_teachers(teachers)

Now more importantly, every programmer, regardless of experience feels like the way you are feeling. Just rewatch the videos, hack away on code that interests you and read other peoples code. Things will eventually stick!