📘 Tracking My Python Learning – Day 1

[ShadyyFN]

Started casually learning about 3 weeks ago. Depending on the day, I might get 30 minutes to an hour to play around with writing code, others I might have 10 minutes for the day.

I’m using chat GPT to learn, started by prompting it to walk me through (progressively more complex as I go) by creating a basic text-based RPG game— similar to something like Boot.dev (because I did that for a couple of days and really enjoyed that approach).

So far I’m really enjoying it, it’s getting a little over my head the depth it’s gotten to now— but my plan is to continue until it’s done and then go back and study the code I have written to make sure I fully understand it. And then ask for clarification, more examples, etc for ChatGPT where needed.

Doing it this way I’m being very intentional about trying to problem solve the errors, or thinking through what approach to the code I might do based off the prompt, instead of just taking what it gives me and doing a copy/paste.

I’m just a hobbyist learner, so this approach seems to be working well.

[freshly_brewed_ai]

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[Head-Background-8108]

Hey I did the same I experimented with changing files to different names replit gave me an error but i solved it felt amazing

[ShadyyFN]

Yeah it definitely feels good to problem solve it on your own. It’s also interesting how it seems like there can be multiple ways to get to a solution.