[Tutor] assignment sign definition

[jo stone]

Hello,
I am trying to teach myself Python, and got hung up on the definition of Assignment signs...The explination I have is:
"A good way to understand the statement userAge = 0 is to think of it as userAge <- 0."

I read this as "userAge is less than minus 0"    which make absolutely NO sense to me...
Could someone please put this into terms I can understand?

Thanks!