Is there any hope for me?
No: anyone who throws away partially-completed projects will never make it as an electronics hobbyist. ;D
Okay, seriously: you do need at least a little bit of coding talent to make stuff with Arduinos. There are some people who don't have it, but the fact that you're interested means you're probably not one of them.
It helps to have some coding experience when you're getting started, but, as CB pointed out, there are tutorials and examples you can use to acquire it. It just means it'll take you a little longer to get up to speed.
So it looks like your biggest problem is that lack of the scrounging and hoarding genes 