I can understand how that might feel. I don't think Java's supposed to be as bad as C++, but I'm only up to the 8th lesson (the first 3 of them being what to download and how to install them) and I swear that I should know more than I do. They do a great job of explaining things, but they keep throwing up things to the code and I just want to yell, 'Tell me what [piece of code I don't know yet] does!' when they don't explain it.
But, if you want to check it out, look at
http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php, even if you don't want to start with C++, they might have something more suitable to start with since they have more than 20 playlists on computer programming.