Just keep practicing and if you stick with it long enough you'll figure it out and if you had a friend that's already done it like or a mentor it'd be even faster.
Once you start writing enough programs and using MS Visual Studio you'll easily be able to figure out with a your new knowledge why alot of them older tutorials don't work and which ones you shouldn't even waste your time on.
And those people that breeze through it all usually have been programming for a while so picking up a new language,API,etc is a nothing for them.