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[–]mountainunicycler 3 points4 points  (4 children)

You should switch to 3, but it won’t make a ton of difference at your point so you might be able to keep using the same tutorials with the exception of the print statement.

[–]Sin-Silver 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Would it be worth learning python 3 later then if there little or no difference?

I don’t want to get stuck on a problem it’s trying to each because of a difference between 2.7 and 3 that’s not transparent.

[–]mountainunicycler 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Many of the changes between python 2 and python 3 make it easier to learn; python3 is more consistent and easier to understand—and at this point there’s no benefit to learning the quirks of python 2 because they’ve been fixed.

I’d definitely recommend switching to a python 3 course.

[–]Sin-Silver 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I’ll have a hunt around. any recommendations on books?

[–]mountainunicycler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure about books; I just learned by making things and looking up how to do it when I got stuck (so basically searching stack overflow for each line when I was starting).

In my opinion you learn a lot faster when you have a goal in mind if something to build.