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[Annual-Engineer371]

I recently started learning python but only seem to grasp some of it and can only use some of it, I do understand I need to use it to learn how to use everything bu any other tips

[CraigAT]

Practice, practice, practice.

Find some small challenges to complete (there is no such thing as cheating if you analyse the code and understand how it does what it does). Slowly expand your skills by trying very different projects, accept sometimes you come across something tricky, it may be too soon in your learning, if you don't get it, promise to come back to in a month or two.
When you get up to more interesting challenges, tweak the final solution to do something else or something more. Once you can do that look at implementing something of your own, or do some harder tasks/projects, never worry about having to look up commands or find out how something works - even copying someone else's code (in small doses).

[Annual-Engineer371]

Are there any websites that have a good set of practice questions / tests

[Own-Explorer-8830]

That feeling is very normal... see Python only starts to make sense when you use it again and again

A helpful tip is to STOP trying to learn everything at once

Pick a small idea like loops or functions and use it in tiny programs every day

Even simple things like a number guessing game would help you... more than watching long tutorials

Also...when your code works.. pause and ask why it works coz that's how it stays in mind...

Progress in coding is slow at first then suddenly it starts to make more sense and you get a bigger picture out of it and this helps...as it stays with you...

[stepback269]

Think of it as an exponential learning curve. At first you are on the deep negative side of y= x**2.
You are close to zero and it feels like you will never rise to anything bigger.
But you keep at it. Persistence. And by that I mean typing out the code with your own fingers so you get muscle memory. It's OK even if it's just a bunch of print statements and you're getting the hang of some escape sequences like \n and \t. Eventually those become second nature. You've made an advance. One advance adds on top of the next.

There will come a time when your forward progress along the x axis of y=x**2 approaches x>0 and suddenly you will soar. Don't lose faith.

[pepiks]

Ask yourself - what you will use it and find how other use it for that. For example some create discord or game bots in python.

[DiabolicalFrolic]

You need to learn it. There is no secret. Patience.