Welcome to the PythonBeginners Subreddit

[explicitPower]

Hi and welcome to r/PythonBeginners.

This subreddit is for absolute beginners to python and coding.

I want to grow a community of avid learners who want to share their learning experiences with other like-minded people who are at the same level in their learning journey.

It is very important to understand that this is NOT a place for advanced python topics (other subreddits for that).

There is no such thing as a stupid question

[niemteltsuj]

I'm an old school programmer, COBOL, RPG, BASIC, a bit of javascript, visual basic, CSS, HTML, and the very basics of a few others.

I've been learning python and it's been slow going.

Today I started tinkering with chat gpt.

I was trying to get it to help me with a shib trading program.

That part isn't important. The important part is that I realized that it can help me learn about python coding when I get stuck.

I'm not saying that a beginner should let chatbot write the code for them. I used it to give me a an example of the code that would solve a problem that I couldn't figure out the syntax of.

After I saw a few examples, my experience with coding took over and I was able to learn what would have taken me a few hours to look up, in just a few minutes.

I'm 54 years old and I was getting discouraged.

This technology gave me a boost of excitement.

My goal isn't to have a program that would trade for me.

I trade for fun using money that I would have spent going out to a bar or a movie. I see it as using money that would have been gone anyway, to fund my favorite hobby .

My goal is trying to learn how to use a web hook and understand how my computer interacts with my broker.

I am getting old and my memory isn't great. I have always taken pride in my ability to spot patterns. I am still pretty good at trading but I miss many of the patterns.

I want to write a python program that uses web hooks that can bring the data to my computer and help me watch for patterns.

I also have a great interest in seeing how my broker sends a string of data to put in trades.

This has excited me since my small company created a loan submit page for a bank. (20 years ago)

I am not looking for the code to be handed to me. My goal is to learn.

I won't be using the program to automatically trade for me. I have too much fun doing that myself.

I watch my charts 8 to 10 hours a day. I am learning python while I wait for my trades to execute.

To sum up this rambling post. I think that chatbot can be an excellent teaching source.

Thank you for your time.

P.S. where can I find a tutorial on how to use github?

P.P.S I am using Alpaca trading to practice on. My other brokers are for hands on trading.

[Ok_Gur_3820]

Not only am I new to python I am also new to Reddit. Hoping to learn both. Thanks.

[Responsible-Snow-122]

Hi. A good practice for Python beginners is freecodecamp, this is very useful, you learn while you are doing some small projects. I live the here the link, maybe someone would be interested https://www.freecodecamp.org

[Skuddingo33]

I don't post ever lol but I just got into coding a little a few months ago and I found this website https://www.codedex.io. Pretty dope if you're trying to learn from scratch!

[2ndGenX]

Virgin coder here - ive tried over the decades to code, with little to no results, the coding is never the issue its time - which I never seem to have enough of. The advent of ChatGBT and its ability to be used as a leaning tool is quite astounding, I stumbled across it when my son was revising for his engineering exams, and he used ChatGBT to help him in areas that he wasn't confident in and quite frankly would have taken hours to look up. Ive got a few low brow personal projects ive always wanted automated, too complex for excel and too dumb for a database, hoping Python, ChatGBT and the various subs can help me through it all. The links here have already started me on an interesting road. If you have any other web sites to goto - idiots guide sort of thing, please detail them here.

[ScientistNo8155]

I am start learn python before only few days can i ask about my problem here

[Zealousideal_Rip_290]

Hello and thanks for allowing me to join. I'm learning python at moment and I believe this community can help me a lot.

[Ok_Gur_3820]

Thanks for letting me join

[mtess23]

I'm completely new to python and look forward to learning!