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Paul Fisher
455 PointsAdvice please: I am now officially struggling with this enitre Python course on Treehouse: it is going too fast
I find that when a video revisits a topic from a previous course (in this case TRY and EXCEPT) I have zero recollection of either the concept or the syntax necessary. What I would like to do is after EVERY video have like 5 or 10 exercises that allows me to practice in a very simple way the thing I have just learned, as this will cement the learning in my head. Does anyone know of another course provider that offers this? Thanks!
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Sean May
9,145 PointsI don't know of any specific sites or books that have what you're looking for. You can possibly try to mess with your existing code and put different values in for the variables to see how the process works. There are plenty of sites that will give you 'challenges' like what you get in Treehouse, but I don't think there's anything that will give you 10 essentially identical challenges.
Here's some advice, because I think you're getting frustrated with coding in general, and I don't think your frustrations are specifically about Treehouse...push through the issues, look up answers, even directly copy and paste the challenge questions into Google to try to find the answers (I really wish Treehouse would have some easy way to link between the challenges and the forums), just get through the challenges.
Learning coding is a frustrating process for a lot of people, and it takes a long time for this stuff to make sense. There's going to be a lot of times where you're typing stuff and you don't understand any of it. But, eventually, things will start to make sense.
One thing that really helped me start to "get" how coding works was by learning the basics of a new language. I knew JavaScript, but I felt like I didn't "get" it. Once I started diving into Python, things started to make much more sense in both JavaScript and Python. Once you start to understand the fundamental mechanics of programming, your comprehension of just about any language is going to increase. In the end, most mainstream languages (JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.) work pretty much the same, they just do those same things in slightly different ways. Once you see that, I feel like coding will get easier for you, but it's just going to take time and commitment.
Don't give up!