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Comment author: dbaupp 09 September 2012 04:18:57PM * 0 points [-]

This is a little late, but:

you should Google things. I know this isn't so useful often, but, especially with popular online courses, others may have posted answers, which can help you over the hump. Also, it's an intensely useful skill/habit to have.
you can ask questions on StackOverflow. Be careful to phrase it as "I'm learning x, and I'm not sure how to do y, could someone point me in the right direction" (where y is quite specific), rather than "Give me the code to do y" or something too general. As an essentially arbitrary example,

I'm doing the Udacity CS253 class, and I'm not sure how to get the information after the ? out of a URL like http://mywebsite.com/blah?a=1&b=2 in Python, I would like it so that there is some way to ask for the value of a or the value of b. (I've tried Google but I don't know the correct terminology, so no luck there.)