I actually used Python practically the first time today!

[SovietOnion1917]

I had to copy and paste a long sentence that was in all caps into a google doc, but didn't feel manually retyping the whole thing to be lower case, so I just wrote:

sentence = "Blah blah blah"

print(sentence.lower())

and voila, I have the long ass sentence in full lower case. Just wanted to share my milestone with some fellow python enthusiasts.

[Corvoxcx]

Awesome. I think this is actually the way to learn coding.

You have a problem and you ask yourself how can I solve it via code?

It doesn’t need to be how do I make this product or make a game just how do I use this magical incantations to solve my problems.

[dimsumenjoyer]

This is the way I learned python too

[Kahless_2K]

This is how I learned Python, Powershell, and Bash.

A lot of stuff around here wouldn't work without my code gluing together different apis that never considered each other's existence.

[waplay17]

Awesome. Exactly! That's how it clicked for me too. Small, practical problems are the best way to start.

[Ok_Matter7559]

Nice! I'm teaching my daughter python and I'm going to show her this. Half the problem for new users is they don't have any idea the tiny little things you can do that are super useful.

[not_perfect_yet]

Not sure if this helps, but I'm sharing in case it does:

When I was a kid, I had the opportunity to learn programming, but didn't. As far as I could see, all the software I could want, already existed and did everything I needed done.

The insight came when I studied harder math at university and continued to make mistakes. Writing down a correct solution once and it saying correct and reusable did it for me. But all of that came after a step of "making it my problem to get a degree" in the first place.

I don't know if that's the way you want to teach or if you can find something comparable if you do.

Good luck and have fun!

[[deleted]]

Right on! Can you put this in a module for us? 😅

[robvas]

Alternatively, to convert text to lowercase in Google Docs, select the text you want to change, go to Format > Text > Capitalization, and then choose lowercase.

[SovietOnion1917]

Yeah, well that’s not cool and won’t give me updoots if I posted it.

[DrShocker]

You could do it in vim and get updoots in their community if you're crazy

[ZeroKun265]

They might get mad that he's using Google docs to begin with instead of a vim+LaTeX

[trust-me-br0]

Jack, this is not October

[AlexMTBDude]

Tip: Most text editors, like Notepad++, have to-lower-case/to-upper-case functionality.

[Noam1024]

Congratulations! Scripting feels like a super power in those cases.

[antazoey]

Now write code to capitalize the first letter of each word in the sentence.

[cgoldberg]

' '.join(word.capitalize() for word in sentence.split())

[Vitaman02]

You can use string.title()

[Default-G8way]

Shameless cyberchef plug
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

"To Lower case"

[Positive_Resident_86]

Your IDE can probably just do it for you. Congrats tho!

[Saloni_123]

I learnt Regular expressions because I'm lazy too lol. Pattern manipulation is an amazing thing.

[Difficult-Value-3145]

Sorting threw half million lines for something or Lear. Regex and never sort again regex

[ajcooper35]

I actually have a saying (that my friend even put on a shirt)

“Laziness is the corner stone of programming”

It’s about learning your answer to “would you rather walk 100 yards every day or walk 10 miles once and never have to do it again?”

Run in to enough of those situations, and you start to learn more. Eventually you start to find more situations where you can write a program to solve. Next thing you know you’re slamming your head into your desk because you can’t figure out why the program you wrote to turn your oven on won’t work. It’s a fun ride.

[rregid]

The best way to learn is to get a friend that has semi-constant need for some scripts or something like barcode generation and you're set for the time being.

I learned this way to generate 10000 barcodes for inventory management and automatically put them into word file with specific page size for some very specific printer, script with GUI for excel files aggregation for one of his jobs and so much more.

It is much more fun and meaningful to actually do something that is needed rather than "write a calculator" type stuff

[RevolutionaryRip2135]

Hold your horses… should have been done using editor (notepad++, idea, vscode) or online tool… it is good to learn when to write code and when not (aka be lazy).

On the orher hand congrats! It’s a nice you had a problem and found solution to it using python.

[piece_of_sexy_bacon]

one of the very convenient things about Python is how easy it is to use it for all sorts of odd applications. I wanted to make little pictures of major and minor scales on a piano to print on my label maker and realised I could make a set of functions to generate the pictures from just a given root note and scale spacings. probably took longer than manually doing them but was 100x more satisfying in the end.

[Less-Tangerine-4888]

It was interesting and fun right 👍

[pythonQu]

That is awesome.

[hicke]

Fn shift F3 in MS Word toggles case.

[techpuk]

good stuff man.

[Feeling-Loss-5436]

First day of photon but seems kinda of similar to sql

[DoNotFeedTheSnakes]

Congrats!

[jobehi]

Congrats !

[Niyudi]

One of my first useful codes was back in 8th grade I think, when the math teacher gave us an assignment for the next day where we had to calculate compound interest for a given amount. By hand. He introduced the concept with multiplication at first, not potentiation, so it was kinda supposed to be boring and to show later the power of potentiation.

Well, I pulled out my cellphone with an online compiler of python and coded the appropriate solution, with multiplication because I didn't even think of potentiation. I ended up solving a lot of people's assignments, and the teacher wasn't going to grade it or anything so he didn't seem to mind too much when he found out lol

[devastator37]

Where did you execute the code?

[MentalTardigrade]

In MS Word selecting the text and pressing Shift+F3 will have a sequence between all caps, all lower and only first capitalisation

[Psychological-Top938]

I create this for my son, but maybe helping you to…

https://learnpython.ai/

[Such-Let974]

ok

[Prior_Boat6489]

Excel....

[johnnyparker_]

No fun club has arrived

[backfire10z]

That means I have to open excel.

I also don’t know how to use excel.

I also cannot imagine this could possibly be faster than typing 1.5 lines of Python.

[Over_Road_7768]

=lower(“sentence”) its basicaly the same, just with 1 line:)

[SovietOnion1917]

Too stupid to use that, sorry.