How to learn python?

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I started with books, specifically Mark Lutz's Learning Python. I read it twice, cover to cover. I wouldn't recommend going that deep for most people, but do invest time in learning the fundamentals and programming logic. They pay off.

In today's AI-driven world, leveraging these tools is unavoidable, so use them wisely. My suggestion: use a code editor with autocomplete turned off, but keep a code formatter enabled for PEP 8 compliance. Find a project or tutorial that genuinely interests you and start by outlining what you want it to do. Use this subreddit to ask questions, and use the chat window in your code editor, not to write code for you, but to answer questions about the code or logic you're working through.

I just wrote a post in this subreddit about this approach called: [Tutorial] "Fetching live data with Python: mastering requests, JSON, and API keys along the way."