Ask HN: Was everyone's first web development experience extremely difficult?

I started reading Hacker News about two years ago (freshman year in college), and I was instantly motivated to start coding. I decided to major in EE, and I've done well in my C/C++ programming classes. I also picked up Python and R for some work on personal projects. However, almost all of my coding has been limited to the command line. Although its been fun, I've been interested in designing a web-app for a while. Some of the posts on Hacker News make the process sound so easy, so I finally built up the motivation to start. I decided to use Python as a backend, since I know that language best. I chose Flask as my web framework because it's supposed to be one of the simplest frameworks for Python. Unfortunately, I'm struggling to understand proper file structure and basic features such as blueprints, forms, models, and controllers. Most Flask tutorials go over these terms too quickly for me to properly understand them. I wanted to manage users on the web-app,