My first two weeks of learning godot 

Okay lets see if I can explain this correctly - not just for you but anyone else that might run into some of these problems First, lets start with the issue of your hitboxes not being aligned depending on your character direction. Lets assume the following: Your character is a CharacterBody2d, attached to it you have a sprite2d with the default image facing right, collision2d, animation player, and area2d and that area 2d has a collision2d attached to it for the swords hitbox. In your movement code while moving left, set your sprite2d.flip_h = true, and your swords hitbox scale.x = -1, when moving right sprite2d.flip_h = false, and your swords hitbox scale.x = 1 In your animation player, you can during that animation also make keyframes to enable and disable the hitbox. You can even get fancy and do things like move that hitbox during the animation. I started using godot about 1 year ago, I hope this information finds you and is helpful.

I feel like you're building from scratch when there's probably a much better language that would allow you to just call existing libraries that other people have already built.

u should totally learn python. im still new to coding but from what ive learned about it that coding language uses very simple vocabulary

I'm new to developing and I have no code experience. I'm also looking for a Godot for dummies

Moving to unity is not the solution. Your issue seems to just be a misunderstanding of programming in general. When I moved to Godot, I had never used a coding language in my life but I was able to pick it up fast because I had programmed in a non-code engine before and understood the concepts. The only thing I can say is take your time to try and understand the core concepts and try not to get frustrated

10 PRINT "97BUCKEYE IS AWESOME!" 20 GOTO 10