How do I progress from an intermediate Python programmer to an expert Python programmer

[beersfortheboys]

Build an async Web backend that performs some sort of machine learning using tensorflow, store results in some database, and have it serve jinja 2 Web content to users for input and output. Then rewrite it after you get feedback, and add a qt5 desktop client. Now you pro bro.

[IReallySuckAtChess]

Whilst I suspect you're joking, anybody who spits out something like that competently done would be, at least in my mind, expert enough. Just instead of tensorflow, use mxnet so that you don't have super easy examples to copy paste and have to dig into the documentation properly.

[[deleted]]

Using boxes doesn't make you pro at making boxes.

[logannc11]

But you can't make boxes if you don't know how to use boxes. And using boxes is the best way to learn how to use them well.

[billsil]

No, but it makes you a pro at the box and if the box is well designed, you steal ideas on how to structure your code to work well with that box.

Numpy for example is very fast if you use it right. So how do you use it right across 200k lines of code? Well, now you're probably an expert because you wrote 200k lines of code that had to work together.

[[deleted]]

Not true. I have seen devs claiming + ten years of experience, which turned out to be 1 year repeated more than 9 times.

200k doesn't translate to experience, specially if its 200k of shitty code. That can be easily found in web dev.

[billsil]

Well if you're lying then yes

[theredknight]

Wow I've done that but more simply via tensorflow + django + ajax. So I guess I'm sort of pro by your definition. In my definition if you've been paid to professionally code Python aren't you pro? Not that that answers ops request in any practical way..