Hey, I just wodered if anyone else has felt like they really don't understand something and never will because it is just to confusing but managed to get through it in the end? I am learning Perl and some of it gets so confusing I often feel like I will never understand it, anyone else feel the same?
Every day. That's how we learn. Find something we don't understand, and study it. For Perl, I would recommend buying the O'Reilly series of Perl books (or a couple of them). Start with "Learning Perl", then look at some of the others. In addition to Learning Perl, take a look at Programming Perl and The Perl Cookbook. Check out this site: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/topic/perl
My advice is to pick up as many Perl books as you can from ebay. Also, check out www.perlmonks.org . If I ask a question it usually gets answered pretty fast. The people on that forum are extremely knowledgeable. Randall Schwartz posts over there. If you have any other questions hit me up on yahoo IM. Good Luck.
It's perfectly natural. I felt the same way about Matlab when I started learning that, and HTML and CSS when I started learning those, and PHP when I started learning that, and... It'll pass, once you change your mindset. Before you know it code will come to you naturally. Just don't give up now or everything you've done so far will all be for naught.