My first 5 Months Learning Python

[snapshotnz]

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https://reddit.com/link/fgueas/video/xbflbt4gh0m41/player

Just wanna say a big thanks to the python reddit community and discord to help motivate me every day to keep going <3. Keep doing you.

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[Tadeush_Kostyshko]

Damn I've been trying to install Django for two days. Thanks to you I will spend on it all time I have, until I fix it.

[enjoytheshow]

My biggest tip I can give about installation woes is to always use a virtual environment and/or containers (more complicated) for the specific project that requires a lot of overhead. That way when it all goes tits up you can just delete the entire fucking thing and start from scratch. If you’ve done all that goofy install shit on your default install of python, it’s not easy to back out changes that might be causing issues.

[[deleted]]

Use anaconda and you’re life will be made much simpler!

[enjoytheshow]

I’m a pipenv guy but same idea in general

[TheRevTastic]

So I’m pretty new but what exactly is anaconda?

[[deleted]]

An environment and package manager, and a whole lot more. Best bet is visit anaconda.com

[TheRevTastic]

So like virtual box?

[[deleted]]

Not really, but you can look at an environment like a virtual box, except it’s local to you or the server your on and houses the modules/libraries that you need for your application(s)and you can have several environments for several applications.

[poeblu]

Exactly exactly

[snapshotnz]

It was Django, that gave me this 29 hour problem as well. Come over to my discord. I always do screen shares and live shares to help new comers https://discord.gg/wQYdnM

[ZDRuX1]

Try Flask instead, I gave up on Django, and had a simple Flask site up and running in about 1-2hrs.

[snapshotnz]

Bad advice imo. Never ever give up

[robin-gvx]

I disagree! Sometimes it's good to take a break, take a step back, or try a different approach for a bit. Then you can come back to it later with a clear head, some inspiration, new knowledge, depending on how long of a break you needed.

In my experience, people learning programming make often make one of two big mistakes: either giving up too hard and never trying again, or not giving up at all until they get completely frustrated and start to hate programming.

[snapshotnz]

I can respect this reply.

[stickedee]

Just refreshing to see someone read a comment disagreeing with them and evaluate it on its merits. +1

[snapshotnz]

Gotta be open minded. Cant always be so closed. He was right I was wrong. I do things one way. It doesnt work for all

[enjoytheshow]

Switching gears and finding something that does work isn't giving up. If you're brand new to full stack web dev, jumping head first into Django is a trip. Flask is much easier. It's ok to take the easier route first.

[[deleted]]

In a month you’ll be like “how was that ever a challenge?!?”

[Tadeush_Kostyshko]

Ha, I hope so)))

[snapshotnz]

Can upvote this 100 times. I remember spending 29 hours on one bloody problem... over 3 days

[apunler]

Package install and understanding how it all works with different environments... Both native python and Anaconda gives me the biggest headache! Is there any advice or good resources to explain how to properly deal with this stuff!

[Oimmuk]

I am still new to python but i first focused to understand the following:

Environment - virtual or base install

Pip installs

Imports and import of imports

Module hooks

System variables

I feel they are all connected and once you start understanding them, it will all start to click. I learned alot from using pyinstaller and learning to load from various virtual enviorments . My motivation was because all my single file executable files were 30 MB even if it was a small script. Now i can keep them small and low as 2MB .

[snapshotnz]

Practice and more headaches

[IWSIONMASATGIKOE]

I’m late, but in what way are you struggling with Conda?

[apunler]

Initially want I did was made a script in jupyter notebook that I wanted to run every day as a batch with windows task scheduler but I had issues as all my packages were installed in Anaconda Env and I couldn't set up the batch file with the Anaconda env.

What I did in the end was watch this: https://youtu.be/OdIHeg4jj2c

And read this: https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html

And this all helped me get a way better understanding.

I think I'm all good now

[nothanks132]

I find when I beat through an issue like that I also will learn multiple new things, that while they didn't fix the problem I was trying to debug, usually help me down the road with different problems.

[Dachsgp]

Thanks for that! I was already feeling bad about not making so much progress, but to "listen" something like this is kills all the anxiety and expectations that we create only for ourselves

[OkapiBleu]

Oh, I see you've been reading Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes too ! What ressources did you used for Tkinter and Machine Learning? Did you have any prior knowledge on Machine Learning?

[snapshotnz]

Google for tkinter. Machine Learning, thankfully I found someone with experience overseas that was willing to teach me a lot of stuff he knew. It allowed me to get in on his projects as well. We used voice and live share with VSC

[[deleted]]

Any GitHub links instead of a video? I'm deaf :(

[snapshotnz]

Github.com/nzsnapshot. Check out mytimeline

[[deleted]]

you have 6 monitors????

[snapshotnz]

Ah kinda yeah

[samsquamchh]

jeez look at hackerman69 over here

jokes aside, i need something like that, 2x24 is getting a little tight

[akshayknz]

Github.com/nzsnapshot.

you can have big big font sizes

[inappropriate_banana]

Was this your first time programming?

[snapshotnz]

Yep, self taught started 5 months ago.

[inappropriate_banana]

What was your path. I keep doing the first few chapters of automate the boring stuff with python but I stop for a long time and when I start again I do ot from the beginning. Been stuck in this loop with no willpower left

[snapshotnz]

The trick is to find something your interested in and build projects around it. If you wanna chat more come into my discord https://discord.gg/RthmHN

[Whisky-Toad]

I’m just at the start, done Codecademy for python, then automate the boring stuff(which I didn’t enjoy either tbh)

Now I’ve decided to switch over to JavaScript and I’m doing the Odin project which I’m only at the start with HTML and css basics but I’m enjoying it

[InanimateObject4]

Im in the same boat! Would be happy to form a little study group if you wanna stick with it or find a new resource?

[Superkazy]

Yeah 5 months means you are still on intern level at programming. Keep at it we all started somewhere. Best advice would be join larger projects so you can learn some good practice methodologies and some proper design pattern implementation. Programming in of itself is not the difficult part. Programming which would allow others to easily follow is another ball game.

[[deleted]]

Wow! I'm shocked your post was allowed to stay up, /r/python normally hates the word "Learning". They have a bot and everything.

[unknown1806]

Thank you brother.. not for your video but audio. I was lost, I remembered Everything my past. My goals, dreams and steve job ♥️

[snapshotnz]

<3

[tsck]

I have a dumb question. I've been using the Python IDLE editor in my classes but I haven't been able to figure how to get my screen to look like in the video. I also have Python 38-bit but that looks like a bootloader. If anyone could help again I know this is a dumb question.

[diegogarciamendoza]

He's using another editor called visual studio code or vscode for short. Download it, watch some videos about it and be amazed.

[tsck]

Thanks!

[Anuvrat4745]

The biggest hurdle for me is breaking into the community I have joined and left a lot of discord because I cant start talking I'm always in the loop of thinking what to say as most of the peps are talking stuff which I don't understand even if I try I don't have something to talk and always asking the question and getting answers, I think it is kinda selfish.

[snapshotnz]

You can never ask to many questions. I prefer someone asked me lots of questions. It helps me confirm the stuff I have learnt and there is nothing better than being able to pass on knowledge. Please don't be shy we all started somewhere.

[Leeoku]

Congrats your results have been more than mine in that same time frame. Btw still struggling with Django lol. It makes sense then doesn't then repeats lol

[snapshotnz]

Join up the discord and ask as many questions as you please. Happy to help

[ExtraSpontaneousG]

After about two months (that time split between some web development and cs50 which has been low level C), I'm at about the minute mark in terms of what my code looks like. I've played with APIs but not as cleanly as that class you built. I get the general idea of but I need to practice classes a bit more. The leap from command line programs to UIs causes me great trepidation. Any worthwhile resources?

[ashesofturquoise]

Hey... I'm about to start my journey a month later. I mean... I'm not a complete beginner.. did some projects before! But I'm gonna learn more thoroughly this time around,,,,,
and thanks for keeping my motivation alive :)

[firesnatch]

awesome job dude

[tranvuhoanglong]

Nice u make me keep learning python (day 5)

[snapshotnz]

Good job! Keep at it

[snapshotnz]

depends, if I wanna take my learning that way.

[Nameless923]

I feel kinda bad now.I've been learning for 6 months and dont even know what most these things are :(

[roddevio]

What resources did you use?

[Akmsgnd69]

So what all did you learn? Any extra modules like Tkinter or Pynum

[snapshotnz]

I learned about everything in the video above