You seem to have hit the nail on the head. >She wants to learn, and she is stubborn as hell, but things just aren't clicking for her. This is the case with a l

You seem to have hit the nail on the head. >She wants to learn, and she is stubborn as hell, but things just aren't clicking for her. This is the case with a lot of things for her, not just coding. She learns by memorizing, not understanding. >I have tried to sit down with her and help her through the courses on Brilliant but she systematically focuses on answers rather than understanding. My advice would be to try to find a topic she does fully understand and not just memorized the answers/talking points. Once you have this established try to figure out why that one thing clicked vs other things she learns. Is it personal passion for wanting to learn how to code or monetary reasons. Ask what is the 'end goal' of learning to code? Better career and finances? Different environment than she currently works? To satisfy a personal curiosity in knowing how things work? Anecdotally I find myself learning with her method for short term things I need to know for a short personal gain. I may need to learn something one time on a unique project. I'll figure it out get the job done and move on without fully grasping what was done because I just cared about the results and think that this issue will never come back again. Go to another subject where I truly care about understanding the why not just the results and I will actually want to learn because once it 'clicks' and you start to grasp the underlying processes going on and how everything is connected, you get hit with that 'accomplished' feeling of reward that I personally only get after being stuck on something for a while and then finally grasping it. Don't know if this rant will help you but good luck!