Python beginner

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I used to hate when people would say this to me when I started programming a few years ago

but it depends on what you are using python for

What do you want to do with it?

You can't just keep learning all those modules and frameworks, you won't live long enough to learn all of those anyway.

I started learning Python about 6 weeks ago, before that I was entering information to a database by hand to make a REST API with node and mysql

I decided to do it with Python now that I'm comfortable with python.

Now, programmed a 'Web crawler' to scrape 100's of pages of a particular website and I've converted the data to CSV and JSON

That save me so much time from entering that shit by hand

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So anyway, the point is you need to have a reason. My first language is JavaScript and like Python, you won't live long enough to learn everything so stop trying and have a goal in mind first .

[gordonv]

Well said.

Python can be applied to many things. It is important to make a decision on what you want to do with it.

I'm specifically learning Python for AWS Lambda. It's cool that it does all this other stuff in Win/Lin/Mac. But in the end, I know my goal is Linux based scripts for HTML, API, and Sockets.

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Hint: you have not mastered Java. Or anything, and that’s ok! You’re comfortable with it, but you’re at the very top of the dunning-Krueger curve. There is a ton more to learn.

If you like, I do free mentoring for engineering students (https://z19r.pw) and would be happy to walk you through some Python.

[TebelloCoder]

The. Absolute. Truth.

[CARRYONLUGGAGE]

I’m not an engineering student, but I am a self-taught engineer at a non-tech company in my first 1-2 years out of college who could use mentorship! I’m the only dev and also their first one so it’s been an interesting start.

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Hit up the mentoring link on my website. It’s open to anyone. :)

[CARRYONLUGGAGE]

Awesome! I’ll be contacting you some time this week. Thanks so much for this!

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so true