I decided to start to learn to code, about 4 days ago. I've been going through the Python course on Code Academy, trying my hand at some problems from Project Euler. Code Academy is pretty damn good, but it has some issues with telling you what exactly you're doing wrong. It will tell you that you've done something wrong, but you're never told what is wrong, and why it's wrong. I also found that just going through the source code from game jams and just screwing around with it until it does something interesting. So far it's been pretty rewarding, but occasionally I'll run into problems and trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong is particularly brutal.
I've been doing the Codecademy course as well, but I'm kinda hesitant to continue as I feel like I'm starting to lose hold of the material. I'm not at the point where I need to look everything up to get an answer remotely right, and since I'm often not told what's wrong it can get really frustrating.
It annoys me that there is no "Show answer" option on Code Academy. They've tried to go the handholding route by giving you subtle hints when you mess up, and creating a dedicated forum to answer questions. But often the subtle hints fail, and an "official" annotated answer would be really damn helpful.