[darushimo]

thanks james and commenters saltcod and tmh88j for saying that the first few weeks are the hardest. I'm banging away at the google python exercises and nearly crying. knowing that other people are going through this headache too gives me a bit of confidence to truck through.

[tmh88j]

Once you get through the basics, think of a couple small programs to write to test out your new skills and you'll be sure to encounter new problem. Some of the first programs I wrote in PHP included sorting and ordering a list of numbers and letters that were entered, a pig latin converter, and then to get the hang of MySQL, I created some simple database entries.

For the first month I was constantly referencing other code online to figure out how to create my programs. After a while I found myself looking less and less at existing code and I was able to simply type away.

[james-fend]

No prob! exactly why I wrote it.. during times of learning code; motivation is like gold