For what it's worth, when I was first learning to code, I Really Didn't Get It for a while, and I needed to have my friends sit by me and hold my hand and walk me through examples like I was the dumbest person to ever walk the earth.
After a while, though, I did hit critical mass, and the learning curve flattened out a *lot.* I know that "keep on trying, you'll get it" isn't always the most useful thing to say in situations like this, but....
It might be useful for you to, for a while, explicitly write out the pseudocode for anything you want to code. That way, you're forcing yourself to think algorithmically, but you're writing English steps instead of Python ones, so it's a little more familiar.
For example, if you're checking to see that a number is prime, then the pseudocode might look like:
n = the number we're checking start with x = 2, 'cause it's the smallest prime while x < n if n is divisible by x n is not prime, we can stop checking now otherwise, n might still be prime! set x to the next value to check divisibility with, and run through the loop again
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After a while, though, I did hit critical mass, and the learning curve flattened out a *lot.* I know that "keep on trying, you'll get it" isn't always the most useful thing to say in situations like this, but....
It might be useful for you to, for a while, explicitly write out the pseudocode for anything you want to code. That way, you're forcing yourself to think algorithmically, but you're writing English steps instead of Python ones, so it's a little more familiar.
For example, if you're checking to see that a number is prime, then the pseudocode might look like:
n = the number we're checkingstart with x = 2, 'cause it's the smallest prime
while x < n
if n is divisible by x
n is not prime, we can stop checking now
otherwise,
n might still be prime!
set x to the next value to check divisibility with, and run through the loop again