I've had some success in learning concepts (statements, functions, variables, even some rudimentary understanding of arrays and objects, though not the syntactical usage of them via Python 3 yet). At the same time I'm feeling frustration over the fact that I'm not building interesting stuff with what I know.
The book I'm using is Python for the Absolute Beginner (3rd edition) by Michael Dawson. But it's rather verbose and I feel like it's a slog to get through and the challenges at the end of each chapter aren't all that interesting to me. I tried *Learn Python 3 in Y Minutes* but the syntax examples seem a little isolated insofar as where to use them in a program (again, my understanding of syntactical and language-specific quirks/pitfalls are far behind my conceptual understanding
![Banging my head :banghead:](./images/smilies/banghead.gif)
Are there any programmers here who can suggest what I should do about these problems? Are there resources out there that can help? Should I do what a friend suggested and switch over to Second Life scripting for a while? Or should I just quit the idea of learning programming altogether?