>"Dude. Honestly, you have all the tools that you need to be fairly good at coding. I can already tell." Good to hear! Like I said --and how the original arti

>"Dude. Honestly, you have all the tools that you need to be fairly good at coding. I can already tell." Good to hear! Like I said --and how the original article struck me-- I'm just waiting for that feeling of getting it. We've all had it. I've felt it with thousands of things in my life, from Calculus to playing Street Fighter 2. Up to this point every introductory text/course says, "Look! You're programming!" and I sort of think, "Am I, really?" At the end of the day, I realize that learning anything is a function of time, and I certainly haven't paid my dues there yet. >"All he needed was some exposure." Another good point, which causes me a bit of internal strife. There's a wealth of information out there. In fact (first world problem alert), there's almost too much. Try typing "learn to program" or "introductory python" into Google. It's exhausting. I'm looking for the next incremental step in this learning process, but both my problem and the solution revolve around defining what it is I'm looking for. But, as you and others have suggested, I think the answer will come from looking at other's code and plugging away. Thanks for taking the time to reply.