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I wish I could get my head around programming. I've tried learning from books, I've tried learning from codecademy, and all I can do is follow the lessons, I don't understand how I'm supposed to turn all these lines of gibberish into a program that does something. The most common bit of advice I get is "Just make up a project! Find something that you want the computer to do, it's easy and fun!" And I'm over here like... "OK, how?" It's like someone pointing to a pile of metal and a welder and saying "Build something!" Sure, someone who knows how to weld can do that, but most people are going to need more information.
I think all three of the people replying to you are wrong. They all think you're having trouble finding a project you want to work on. But I think you're saying you struggle to understand how the logic of a program fits together into accomplishing anything.
I think you should follow one of these lessons to produce some example code, and then use the debugger to watch it function line by line.