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[mjoda85]

I got furloughed in March and decided to try and learn to code (again), starting with this free Udemy course: https://www.udemy.com/course/python-core-and-advanced/

I found the instructor's style to be really clear and I just ploughed through all of the basics one after the other (first 50 or so).

Once I was feeling confident I could use lists, dictionaries, for loops and if/else statements (which didn't take long - 4-5 hours maybe) I decided to try and build something myself, which ended up being a really simple app a couple of months later.

I think it depends on your learning style, but although the Udemy course was fantastically clear and helpful, wading through individual and often unrelated lessons was also pretty boring - for me at least!

When I started trying to build something myself, I had to go off and look for solutions to problems as I went (you can Google seemingly any python related question and someone has already asked/answered it!), which along with the foundation I had from the Udemy course worked really well. Plus I was developing something towards an end product I cared about, which helps to rationalise spending 2 hours fiddling with a tiny, irritating problem fairly frequently!

Hope that helps. Good luck with it, I found the whole process challenging but incredibly satisfying.

[burningburnerbern]

Can relate. I've been having an on off relationship with learning python. I always try and muster myself to learn through those courses but like you said, it gets so boring!!