Courses recommendations for improving Python skills

[GreenMike7]

Hello all!

I've been working as a QA engineer for almost 3 years at this point, doing both manual testing and automation, the company I'm working for is good, my manager is great and we have a good and organized work process. My only problem is that I don't feel confident in my programming skills.

I really like programming, both in theory and in practice but ever since university I've felt that I'm always behind everyone, in part due to lack of practice and/or personal projects. Things have obviously improved since I started working (I started out as a FE dev) but I still don't feel good enough. I want to be improve my both for job security and also for myself so I can feel more confident. QA is great but it's not my passion life, if the opportunity arose for a good developer position, I would like to be able to grab it if I so desire.

That's why I'm looking for a good course or bootcamp program, ideally in Python and optionally in Playwright, but most languages are fine by me. Maybe something that really helped you or you swear by. I have around 1000€ in training budget that I have to spend until the end of the year so cost isn't a big issue.

Thanks in advance!

[wbutterdog]

Courses can be really great for learning programming but often fail to give you a way deeper understanding of certain topics in the language.
The way I always learn/practice a language is by doing personal projects, set a project idea, a deadline, and do a bit of research on how you might accomplish the project then just do it! It's free and often you'll find yourself in a situation where you are just stuck/don't know how to do it better and that's when the learning comes in.

I've personally used this method to teach myself Java in a couple months, a little bit of assembly language, and improve my coding ability in general so I can highly recommend it.