However like others have pointed out if I can only drive for 3 hours at below what the usual speed is on the highway THEN I have to wait 30 minutes for it to charge, then it's gonna take a long time to get from place to place in a reasonable amount of time.

I know at my girlfriend's old college their Intro to Computing course was the same as yours, but mine was a full-on Python experience with programming a small robot. The difference was that I attend a technical institute and not a traditional university. Maybe that has a little to do with it.

The same thing happened to me whenever I played fighting games. I was never really good at them but I played them a lot because in my mind it was a way of getting out my frustrations, but I would leave a session of gaming feeling much angrier than before. After a while I just had to stop, it was making me feel miserable to not only lose a lot but also to walk away with my blood pressure high.