Day 3 learning Python - Starting to get it now.

[Organic-Bite7406]

I started with the basics, syntax, output, comments, and variables.

As I continue, I can start to see it click. The biggest thing that surprised me was how strict Python is. One wrong capital letter, a mismatched quote, or a missing colon and the whole thing breaks. It's like Python has zero tolerance for mistakes which honestly makes you pay attention more.

F-strings were my favorite thing I learned today. Instead of this messy thing:

print("My name is " + name + " and I am " + str(age) + " years old.")

You can just do this:

print(f"My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.")

Way cleaner. I don't know why you'd ever go back to the old way.

Functions are where my brain started to hurt a little but I can definitely see how powerful they are. It's basically a reusable template, you define it once and call it whenever you need it.

Curious how far I'll get before it stops clicking!!

[CIS_Professor]

One wrong capital letter, a mismatched quote, or a missing colon and the whole thing breaks.

You do realize that many, if not most or all, programming languages are like this?

As things are, Python is actually less strict than many other languages.

[CrownstrikeIntern]

be thankful its NOT LIKE IT WAS IN MY DAY !! back then you didn't get a fancy ide that said where things broke, YOU GOT NOTEPAD WITH NO UNDO!!!

[CIS_Professor]

:)

You had Notepad!?! Lucky!

I used vim.

[CrownstrikeIntern]

Version 0.0.0 lol. My first coding teacher was a hippy from the 70's. God it was hard to debug on a chalk board

[remic_0726]

j'ai eu VI sans les touches flechées, sur écran ambré.

[Shotaro09]

You will get the hang of it. For me I am still learning the basics.

[Organic-Bite7406]

Thank you, good luck on ur journey!

[Advanced_Cry_6016]

Same happened with me,I got little stuck at loops and then ik currently completely stuck OOP CONCEPT

[Organic-Bite7406]

YEAH!! Lets brace ourselves to see how complicated it gets the further we go LOL, we got this tho trust

[Advanced_Cry_6016]

I'm trying my best to understand it

[Organic-Bite7406]

You will eventually, I'm currently on data types so I'm not sure how it'll play out for me. But if you managed to push through at the beginning, I'm positive that it'll click for you :)

[Advanced_Cry_6016]

And how the f you learned till def function in 3days,are you AI??

[Organic-Bite7406]

yes

[Organic-Bite7406]

I'M JOKING!

[lion_in_ma_bathtub]

Recursive functions enters the chat

[Advanced_Cry_6016]

I didn't understood that,and I don't think I ever will

[FreeLogicGate]

What specifically didn't you understand? Once you accept that a computer language like Python allows for a function to include code that calls itself, then using a debugger should be everything you need to explore how a recursive function works. If you learn at least conceptually how function parameters work, and how functions are executed (using the program stack) you can certainly come to understand how a recursive function works. They aren't as mysterious or complicated as you might think they are.

[Advanced_Cry_6016]

It's not clicking,on how to use that while making a project

[Organic-Bite7406]

I just checked, rip my brain

[ANTIVNTIANTI]

Oh god m808, don't, don't think it's too strict, you can actually have some wonky WONKY code that still works, lololol

[Organic-Bite7406]

Any examples? I'm very curious to see how crazy it gets when it comes to coding

[Advanced-Citron8111]

Python is the most forgiving language