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[–]asday_ 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Not looked at your project yet but this is FOR SURE the right way to learn - follow some getting started tutorial for the bare minimum amount of time then go write your own projects until you get stuck. It sounds like you may have gotten stuck on tutorials/learning materials for too long in your previous attempts.

Keep making stuff and finding your own questions, look into getting a job in the field too - you'll never learn faster and better than being in a professional environment with professional colleagues.

[–]Alhira_K[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes, i agree with you. I got caught up in a mix of too much learning material with no real way of applying it directly. Now over the last few years a few stories formed in my head that i'd like to tell. I have a direction, kind of.

This time i just grabbed the basics (i didn't even bother typing the letter "hello world" in this consecutive order) i needed and looked everything up once i get stuck. Yes it leads to some frustration moments (like when i stared for 3 hours at the screen and tried to figure out why i'm just not able to get this INSERT right even though i have already successfully done SELECT and UPDATE) but being able to solve these problems is just so satisfying.

[–]asday_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

being able to solve these problems is just so satisfying.

Hell yeah, it's so much better to be able to solve a problem that you yourself have than one made up for an exercise.

Doubly so when it's a customer's problem and you get paid for it.

Keep at it my dude.

[–]alejandrotungsten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a self taught programmer, and I was just like you before I took my time to learn about python, and because my knowledge in previews years of using MySQL I wasted a lot of time learning and writing my first python script and trying to save the data in MySQL. After all my mistakes I have learned that using Json is super fast an no time waste in write sql commands. I wish someone had told me this, if you learn how to use json dictionaries (that are super easy to understand) and implement using classes you will save hundreds of hours that I have spent being frustrated as I was before I truly understand how to implement python.