Time spent on problems too much?
<p>I am new to programming. Very new. I got a book about a month ago called Starting with Python.
There are like 14 chapters or so. I have progressed through the first 6 easily enough. They all seemed pretty basic (loops, basic functions, etc.). However, I am now doing chapter 7 and I am doing the exercises at the end of the chapter and they are harder for me to do. Btw, chapter 7 deals with files(adding records, changing data, removing records, stuff like that). And on one I have spent about two or three hours now trying to get the code to run right to change the data on a record in a text file. I know you guys could probably do this in a matter of minutes, and I don't expect that of myself, but is 2 hours doing this too much time? I guess my question is: Is this too much time, even for a beginner on a seemingly simple exercise? Thanks in advance to any replies. </p>
