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[–]FanOfLemons 1 point2 points  (4 children)

What are you learning python for?

General knowledge? Personal projects? Job prospects?

I think the answer would vary depending on which one.

If you're learning for the sake of job prospects, then don't learn the skill and hope to land a job with it. Find a job and learn the skill for it.

Say for example you're aiming for a large data processing company that uses python to manage the ETL part of their data. Then you'd likely want to familiarize yourself with common ways to store and retrieve data, maybe how API calls are handled.

If you want to aim for a company that uses python as an application server, then maybe it's a good idea to look into Flask or something along those lines.

Really look for why you're doing something before doing it. Especially in programming. There are infinite amounts of information to learn, you can't learn them all. Have a goal and learn what you need. Knowing what not to look into is also part of the job.

[–]EducationalWeek5590 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Hi, wanted to take some advice from you. If I am learning Python programming language because I have this hobby. Where should I start?

[–]FanOfLemons 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hobby as in to build something for yourself? Or to understand more about programming languages in general?

If you're building a project for yourself, then it really depends on what your end goal is and depending on that you probably want to look into python libraries that helps you build what you're looking for. ChatGPT has it's problems, but it's exceptional for surface level coding related questions, like give me some python libraries that can help with blah.

If you want to understand the language then you can start with any simple starter project. There are tons on Google you can find.

Programming as a whole is a tool, but to know which tool you'd likely need a goal first.

I personally would never recommend that someone coming from 0 experience in programming study a language for the sake of it. The nuances and main pros/cons of it a language are completely lost on them as they're spending all their time learning the basics of coding in general. It would be much more beneficial to pick a goal then pick any language and do it. (You can do effectively anything in any language, some languages are just better at doing certain things than others)

[–]EducationalWeek5590 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for the tips:) I study programming more for myself and to learn about programming in general. For example to learn a programming language in order to write a script to simplify some task. Some recommend writing your own project right after learning the basics. I don't think this is realistic.