When I learned python it was bugging the crap out of me when I was learning the basics in the terminal they give you. Other tutorials were worse, telling you to use Spyder or the other one I can't remember. It wasn't until I wrote standalone scripts that would actually do things on the computer that I started to understand the concepts. I seems like there's a camp of people using scripting languages inside of a segregated black box environment, which is super annoying to me since everything is obfuscated.