On the other issue, re the 'horrible at math', if you can manage, work through 'Project Euler'(google it), say one a day or 3-4 a week. If you can do more, great, but the aim is to get a long-term habit going. Get into the habit of doing a few of those problems a week and you will have a working capacity with 'real math', which is more than remembering formulas.
Yeah I already played around that site when learning Python. I actually got until (I think) problem #34. Then I sort of stopped, because I can't solved it without resorting to endless nested loops, which made me think I need to brush up on my mathematics because it is somehow limiting me when dealing with some problems. Kind of a chicken and egg situation as far as I could tell now that you mentioned it.
