Not picking up OOP since dunders.

I'm struggling too. One moment I understand a while after I don't know what I'm doing! It's pretty abstract at first but seems little by little the fog is clearing a bit. I'm fighting a week already full time. I think this is not a topic that can be digested in few days regardless what people says... bla bla bla..."I've learned python in 2 weeks" etc... without previous knowledge of other programming languages will take time to memorise the concepts. I remind everytime to myself that this is a marathon, not a sprint. I'm reading as well First head "learn to code" VERY good but also I set the goal to terminate python beginner and intermediate tracks here on treehouse (+ flask, web scraping and panda). I'll try to do all :-)

I appreciate that input Renato! That makes me feel a little better about taking it in at a steady pace

Hi Joshua - I'm sorry this is confusing. We're actually considering breaking this Course up or changing it :(

Hey Ryan! I really appreciate you reaching out. I think that would really help a lot. There's so much information that is so different from the previous courses that its hard not to feel overwhelmed.

If you're having trouble understanding OOP I would suggest watching corey shafer's videos on youtube. Here is his video explaining inheritance and super(). It's much easier to understand than these videos https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=object+oriented+python+corey+shafer&docid=608046444226609579&mid=68BB3B762BA2C87E830668BB3B762BA2C87E8306&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Joshua Lewis

Hi Joshua,

Don’t give up! I also just started learning Python and sometimes I don’t get anything and then suddenly something makes klick The question is, what exactly are you struggling with?

I will try to explain what OOP means to me in a very abstract way maybe this might help:

• Think about languages and programming being about conceptualizing or verbalizing information (information alway needs to be structured in some kind of way)
• Python conceptualizes and structures information around „objects“ and their description/ possibilities (through functions, attributes, classes for example)
• It is as if you would describe the world by „things“ and then explain what these things look like (attribute) and what they can do (functions/methods). E.g. a person (object) looks like (attribute)… and can walk, talk etc. (methods)

Are their any specifics you do not understand? For example:

• dunder methods (like name or init) are just special, predefined methods
• instance -> I think of it as a temporary „copy“ of the class created specifically for the object calling it; therefore the instance for an object entails the info from the class, but can be extended with further attributes for example

Thank you guys so much for the feedback and help!