Having a hard time learn Python

Let me tell you man. . I was struggling in Python Collections as well and partly wanted to give up because I thought I wasn't understanding. I even had a similar post to this! Here's my advice - when you get through a lesson, go back and study / make up your own code similar to it and try to implement previous material into because the further you go into Collections that is what seems to happen. The Collections is definitely difficult. When I was going through it, there would be times when I got to an objective and tried to map out the code, which was WAY off, then go to the forums, find multiple code's of other who mods had helped them correct, and really try to pick apart each loop or function to where I understood it. The further you get into Collections, there are multiple ways to code the material and you can find multiple examples of it here on the forums. Find which example helps you understand it the most while also reading people's feed back and step by step explanation, and PRACTICE! That is what is going to help your brain understand the material, REPETITION. Coding is all about first hand experience. You can't read it from a book and understand it. You need to repeat it until it becomes second nature. Best way to encourage that is by thinking up some silly programs to make that are similar to the current material you're learning and make them run for yourself. Also, once you further understand the syntax, come onto the forums and see if there's other people that are having problems that you understand. This will help you further concrete it all into your brain. There is light at the end of the tunnel man, don't give up! You signed up to Treehouse for a reason! Nothing worth learning or having is easy my friend. Here's a great article that should help you with motivation problems :) http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard Hope you enjoy the read and inspires you to practice. Cheers mate!