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MrMind

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What do you mean with "failed at learning Python"?

I tried to learn it on my own first, and didn't really pick up on anything.

I tried to learn it at university then, and failed that course.

As more and more helpful resources came online, I tried learning from them, and didn't end up learning it. I think my brain works very differently to most people. There are some things which simply require a kind of functioning I really don't have. It seems languages are the frontier of that - where I have it in me to learn exceptions, whereas I can't learn most. It does seem to generalise to languages - I couldn't even ... (read more)