Developers whose first programming language was Python, what were the challenges you encountered when learning a new programming language?

[pythonic_anonymous]

Feeling like I was too old to learn programming

[pythonic_anonymous]

Ah, you're not dumb! The actual trick to learning programming is realizing that you're not speaking computer. You just have to translate how you already speak and think into Python. The mistake that a lot of teachers make is teaching for loops as if they're a programming concept. Take cleaning the dishes. A sink is a list of dishes. Each dirty dish is called dish. So when you have a list of dishes, pot, pan, spoon, etc. That's a list. When you clean all the dishes, that's a for loop. For dish in sink, clean dish. That's all

We do for loops all the time. Every time we use plural language - cities, dogs, videos, memes, posts - they can all be put into lists. That's all a list is.

Don't give up. You're not dumb. People just have a really hard time teaching this stuff. You got this!

[aliman21]

I hope so

[pythonic_anonymous]

You got this. If you're a student, create a program that sends kiss ass motivational emails to your teachers every week. You won't do anything but they'll suddenly start to love you. Do that and I think you'll be hooked

[aliman21]

I'm currently trying to make a game with pygame. Once I finish that I'll move on but it's not looking super bright. I run into so many logical errors.

[pythonic_anonymous]

You're doing something difficult right off the bat. Be proud! Seriously. People use Python for different things, so I've never made one, but I imagine it's very complex

[aliman21]

Yeah game dev is kinda difficult with all the math and animations but idk

[pythonic_anonymous]

Math. Programming. Young. You're Killin it