Hello, @Alicia, and welcome to Python Discourse!
Yes, this is a great venue for asking questions and learning new things about Python. The ideal place for this is the very popular Python Help category.
The following pages offer important information about this forum, including how to properly format Python code for display whenever you choose to include some in a post:
It could be of great benefit to all the students in your Python course if the instructor would review the contents of those pages with the entire class early in the course.