What does this mean?

There's a few keywords in the instructions that give away some of the main points: Loop, If, otherwise (else).

A good way to break the ice when you're blanking is to map out the log with comments:

def loopy(items):
    # for each item in items
        # if something is true:
            # do one thing
        else:
            #do something else

You don't necessarily have to fill them in in order, pick away at the ones you can figure out and work your way down to the more tricky bits

An index always starts at 0, and since strings are technically collections, each character has an index:

Here's a sample:

word = "Test"
first_letter = word[0]

You could normally do it with the continue keyword, but I saw Steven's comment on the other thread you posted for this one and he's right, this can actually be done without continue or an else block. Here's my revised logic, the change in the "if" statement is the key:

def loopy(items):
    # for each item in items
        # if first letter is NOT a:
            # print something

Almost there

1. The commented line "code goes here" can go
2. There was a comment in my last post that is the last piece: # if first letter is NOT a:

There's a "not equal to" operator that need to replace the word "is" in your if statement