I've decided to teach myself python, following MIT's online intro CS course. I'm on lesson 2, and so far, I've mainly reinforced my pre-existing impression that I'm not a particularly intuitive coder (my day job has nothing to with programming; it just seemed like it couldn't hurt to develop another skill).

I realize I'm probably misusing the thread asking this, but if someone can explain the first syntax error in the following snippet, I'd be most appreciative. I assume it has something to do with the way I'm nesting the conditionals, but I've played around with it quite a bit without success (If there's more than one syntax error, just correct the first one, since that's what has me stuck. I'd rather try to puzzle out further glitches on my own first).....

divisor = 3
lastprime = 3
primecount = 2
While primecount < 1000:
lastprime = lastprime + 2
while divisor < lastprime:
if lastprime % factor != 0:
divisor = divisor + 2
else: lastprime = lastprime + 2 and divisor = 3
primecount = primecount + 1
print ("The thousandth prime number is")
print (lastprime)

As an aside -- there is apparently no relationship between aptitude for learning natural languages (I speak four with varying degrees of fluency) and learning synthetic languages, as the above mess presumably shows.