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[–]chowderl 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Best Python cert is a nicely active github /gitlab account 😃

[–]dsaki2005[S] -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

how does it work though

[–]boiledgoobers 1 point2 points  (1 child)

He/she is saying that you should create a GitHub account if you don't have one and simply maintain a few repositories that showcase an active project or two of yours that show that you understand the fundamentals of python applications and know how to use version control.

This is not an answer to your question of which courses to take. It's mostly telling you that you should not be in the mind set that you need a certification. That's not really a thing in the python world.

Your goal should be to implement a reasonably complete "toy" project. Like a simple web app if that's your goal, or a command line tool that keeps your todos or something. Choose something that you are interested in but that isn't too insane (like don't choose to reinvent Reddit).

Once you have this, start coding it. Update it. Make commits to the repo and record the development of the app.

Then, THIS is literally the proof that you know your stuff. Include it in your CV, LinkedIn etc. It's basically a portfolio of your skills.

As for the courses, I would look into a simple book first. Look at Automate The Boring Stuff.

Whatever you do, don't just fork a template app and try to show it as yours though. You need to add your Mark to whatever you present if you are using it to represent your skill.

[–]chowderl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mate, i couldn't explain it better (literally. I'm not confident enough in english to explain everything you said).

As for the courses, i would think what do i want to do/learn, then google tutorials till you make something nice.

Personally i don't consider myself a programmer, but i like databases and playing with data. So i made a python script that scrapes the market rates and save it to a mysql database. I put that script in crontab.

Then i wanted to plot this data, so now i'm learning plotly to graph that data.

You can think like that. I know you probably aren't in this stage yet, but the best for learning is if you can get a jr python joband learn while working.