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[ceponatia]

New to the forum AND new to Python. I read another thread posted from someone who is questioning whether or not programming was the right field to study and I'm at the same point in my education but I'm more optimistic. I'm getting discouraged because it seems to be very reliant on math and I am absolutely TERRIBLE at math. I'm having to study algebra and geometry in my spare time just to finish some of the school labs. I'm in my very first programming class and only 5 weeks into it so I suppose I shouldn't get worried but I can't even picture ever writing a useful program at this point haha. I'll keep chugging along... and that's partly why I'm here... so I can get some help when needed. My professor is pretty much terrible. I'm in a virtual class so I expected to have to do a lot on my own but the professor doesn't respond to the question forums or emails so I've had to ask friends and use google to complete much of my assignments. He wrote all of the labs himself and they are riddled with typos and syntax errors which affect what we have to write in our code (I had to write an output that says "How much does the item weigh?" but his expected output was "How much does the item weights". Ridiculous.

Anyway TL:DR... I'm coming off of a high after just finishing a rather difficult lab and decided "I should see if there's a Python forum somewhere that would be easier to use than Stack Overflow (the people there assume you already know everything about Python and I know next to nothing). So hello! Happy to be here. ;)