I have started a full time class to learn Python. It’s 40 hours a week for a year. I really tried to focus from the beginning this time and do everything perfectly and I must admit that I am really behind on the topics that we are learning and the exercises. To be honest since chatGPT came out I have just been using that for the bi-weekly assessments and the exercises we have to hand in. Four months in I am having a super hard time focusing and no matter how hard I try, I can get distracted by anything and miss big portions of the lectures. Then when we get the exercises I have no idea what to do and get frustrated so quickly and honestly just give up.

(Additionally I am chronically ill and dealing with a lot of pain every day. Also I had to move soon after the classes started and am still wrapped up in renovations for the new place. But I don’t want to use any of this as excuses.)

In the past I have dropped out of one bachelor, finished another and also have gotten a certificate for a 2-year program. I only found out I had ADHD after all of this happened. While getting these degrees I would procrastinate a lot and feel very guilt for not learning anything. I still feel guilty for only finishing things in the last second and I doubt my abilities a lot. I wanted this time to be different and it isn’t :(

(Due to becoming chronically ill I won’t be able to use any of my current degrees. That’s why I need to go to school again to land a wfh opportunity. I don’t know if the pressure of this is helping my learning or not.)

How can I get back into the topics we are learning? I dropped out at “functions and classes” and now we have gotten to “testing” and I am completely lost. I still attend the classes every day and am logged in online but I honestly see no use in doing this, because I understand nothing and would need to catch up first. I can read and correct the code of my classmates without any issues because my analytical brain is made for these kinds of things, but I could never code myself :(

What would you do in this situation?

Tl,dr.: I have a hard time focusing on my coding classes and see no way of getting back into it :(