I decided to take one of my friends' suggestions and start learning with an online course. Codecademy is a great resource for learning the basics of Python and, whilst still hard, made it a lot easier to digest.
I went through the obvious basics of Python, as well as some errors that I can better understand now that I have been told what exactly the errors mean! I want to do this at least once a week, to build up my knowledge and hopefully make something stick!