Jake_28

Well any programming language is hard to learn (except Python I suppose), you just need to keep practicing. Game dev takes a lot of time. A shitton of time. Like you gotta spend years learning how to do it by making smaller things just to make that one big thing you dreamed of. For instance, I tried learning C++ and Unreal engine but I got overwhelmed because I just copy-pasted what the instructor put and didn't take the time to learn it all.

Btw there's a Humble Bundle going on right now for game dev, and you could get a book on Python along with 4 other books for just a dollar. https://www.humblebundle.com/software/intro-to-code-bundle

Also Unity is finicky in my experience. There's obviously a way to fix it but Unreal worked fine for me.

Also what are you using to learn Java? I'm looking into it myself.

I was using a tutorial on youtube, it's kind of old but it still works.
 

Personally, I'm lucky my school offers Java Programming as a two-part course. They have us program in Eclipse, which works pretty well for me. For you, I'd say to just take it slow and make sure you understand everything fully before moving on to another subject. If you keep that mentality, it'll make it a lot easier to keep learning without getting stuck on a subject you don't understand completely, since a lot of different aspects of Java build off of each other and I've tripped up a couple times before from going too quickly.