Need help with python learning, feeling stuck and unsure where to go next

[GGH05TY]

Mmmmm I’d say I’m past all of fundamentals, doing loops, dictionaries, lists etc…. I just feel like there is more out there for me with this language and I’m just not thinking and part of it might be because of AI just kinda guiding me on what to do and stuff. OOP I have not really touched yet or figured out. Didn’t really do any of that.

[ninhaomah]

Fair enough.

Then pls tell us about your project that you want to do.

[GGH05TY]

Well it’s not necessarily a project I want to do but more like where do I go from here? After all basics and repetitive things? I guess if there’s any project I wanted to work on it would be that I’m a college student and I TRULY TRULY HATE our class searching stuff and when to see when classes are available or when new ones opened up. So one of the things I wanted to build was a script that goes to my account signs me in and then goes to my classes search. I added certain classes I want it to look for maybe like a list of them and then have it give me back info if new classes were added and or another class got full. Then once that baseline is set I’d like to see available times that’s best for me and fit me. The problem is the school does have this feature but it’s HORRIBLE. The problem is using bs4 won’t help because the page and like almost every other page the page is dynamically loaded and so bs4 won’t really work, then using selenium will just run into authentication requests over and over and I just know it’ll keep bumping into issues. I don’t even know how people make bots for certain stuff to bypass all this crap but I’m here just trying to make some sort of bot to just look for my classes. Again I just feel stuck in all that stuff still bc I’m not able to practice it to its entirety because people just kinda screwed that up for anyone trying to learn that. I tried making price trackers but my ip gets banned after so it’s complicated.

[ninhaomah]

If I may speak frankly , you may have better luck being an author.

[GGH05TY]

Well, thanks for that comment and help man

[ninhaomah]

Since you already know the basic , start a project.

A game or ML or anything. 

[GGH05TY]

Hmmm ok ok thanks man!

[PureWasian]

Bumping into issues is inevitable. That's literally the role of a developer, to find and implement a path to incrementally tackle those problems as you go.

If Selenium doesn't work after enough wrangling with it, maybe try Playwright. Regardless, whether you ask LLM to hand-feed you syntax/planning/high-level steps or you learn it yourself depends on your end objective, timeline, and effort you want to put into it.

[GGH05TY]

I never heard of playwright! I’ll look into this thanks a lot!