Hey, so i just started with the book as well, with some other courses by the side but mainly the book, and i wanted to share my personal experience.

There's this input function that's mentioned in the end of the first chapter, and I just couldn't make it work on (sublime) the text editor i was working on, I literally spent couple hours or more, reading the chapter again and trying to make it work but it was upto no good, but today i finally got it because i googled and it came up with the answer for why I was stuck.

What i want to say is, although ofcourse i can be more stupid comparitively, there's no shame in making mistakes or if it takes time for you to learn a particular concept or googling about the issue you're not being able to solve yourself, like i did eventually.

I made my peace with all the time and help I'll need to eventually be anywhere in programming tbh, everyone has a different learning curve and face different issues, you may need more time or effort to understand any particular concept, but what really matters is you keep on going because you will eventually get it, that's what I believe in atleast.

Best of luck and sorry for the wall of text!