Do you have a specific question? What stage are you at? Are you approaching the problem with an obsessed enough mindset (they call us nerds for a reason)? If

Do you have a specific question? What stage are you at? Are you approaching the problem with an obsessed enough mindset (they call us nerds for a reason)? If you're having trouble getting a program to work, you have to keep at it no matter how long it takes. It gets easier over time. It may be harder than when I got started, since software back then tended to be more self-contained. But if you can install Python/IDLE and get it to run, that should be enough to start playing with code. As for computer science (algorithms etc.) it helps to have some reasonable mathematical maturity, so you can understand things like big-O notation intuitively. I'm not sure if that's what you were asking though.