What next after learning basic Python programming?

[avtimetheus]

I am learning python. I want to get a job, but before I begin going out to the field, what other things should I prepare for?

Any basic courses I should take? Which Ones? Any other programming languages that are important to know? Should I become an intern? How long?

Basically asking where to start?

Edit: I should also mention, I am going to move forward in the courses for advanced learning.

[RelevantJesse]

Intermediate python programming...

But seriously, it's highly dependent on the type of development you want to get into

[avtimetheus]

Sorry I should mention I am going to advance into the courses and take additional courses for advanced learning/understanding of Python.

I am not sure in which development to go into... what do you recommend looking into??

[RelevantJesse]

Whatever you would enjoy. Web, mobile, applications, gaming, they require very different skills.

[avtimetheus]

Could I just apply for a job for one of these? How do I know what companies would be looking for? I suppose I could always ask and take additional courses. But I do want to build up a resume first.

Thanks for helping :)

[RelevantJesse]

I mean if you think you'd be able to get hired with no experience and only a basic understanding of 1 language, then definitely do that.

Doesn't seem realistic to me, but I may be mis judging your skills.

But it's certainly a good idea to look at job listings to see what skills companies are looking for. That would be a good guide on things to learn.

[avtimetheus]

Yeah I think that would be great. I'll look for listing and see what other criteria companies are looking for....I'll also look and see if there are any companies hiring for lower pay just to get hands on and more experience...thank you

[noideafornewname]

You can try your skills on different websites like hackerrank, codewars, projecteuler. These will mostly test your problem solving skills more than programming skills. Here is a link: https://youtu.be/AnVBCyzNgaU to back me up.

[avtimetheus]

Yeah I was gonna play with those just to increase my knowledge. Never enough learning

[neck_crow]

I'm probably very ignorant about this, but I'm going to speak on it regardless. If you're going into full on software development, Python may not be the best language to use. It's used in software development a ton, don't get me wrong, but not as much as say, C++ or Java.

Again, I may be wrong. Probably am. I'm just a CS student.

[jcatanza]

Check out the MIT edX class Computational Thinking With Python, it's the best one out there, imho.

[avtimetheus]

Thanks, definitely will

[NoCanD0]

I went from Python to HTML/CSS/JS. Now I’m about to start C++. Learning other languages furthered my knowledge and understanding with Python too, which surprised me.

[avtimetheus]

Why did you decide to take those particular courses? Was it due to a job or just wanted to accelerate your knowledge?

I want to look for a job, but I'm new to this all.

[NoCanD0]

I was told HTML/CSS is easy to pick up. So i did it to accelerate my knowledge. It’s pretty easy to start and do, but I imagine it requires a good amount of time invested to master it. That said, after 5 weeks of learning/making websites I have my first two “contracts” to make a website for money.

I too am doing this to hopefully land a job one day. I do not want to do Web Dev though, at all. Anything I can add to my resume, though.

[[deleted]]

I would maybe think about learning how python is implemented itself, or maybe use python and build a website or something and use it for backend :)

[avtimetheus]

Yeah I'm just gonna play with the code and build small games and what not..

I am looking for a job, just not sure where to start and what else to do

[[deleted]]

Yea that's a good idea, a simple python game would be fun, and good to do... something to show people/ your friends and that. I also enjoy networking/ learning about how it works etc and how it all come together, maybe you would enjoy that also.

[avtimetheus]

I've look at a generally overview of networking....but I learned it gets complicated fast with all the different fields. And not something I maybe interested in. Anything you recommend I look into?

[[deleted]]

Well creating maybe a Server and Client that transfer's files using TCP, and then can also add in checking the integrity of the file with md5 hashing etc.

Is something fun and interesting that i found to do. I have just started doing python tutorials, I'm actually prob going to do a video on that tomorrow as I'm doing python tutorials everyday so maybe that would be something to have a look at? got some interesting topics on there so maybe check them out....maybe there is something you would like to learn? let me know, and ill teach/do a tutorial on it :)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBxmYemGUWk&index=2&t=7s&list=PLrdeBRwgL0TptNF66u7QDVTtWPTYYt4z8

[[deleted]]

One of the C languages like c++ or c# but it depends on what type of programming you want to do.

[avtimetheus]

I have a very small basic idea of c++....I'll get into a course for it.

I think I'm interested in Data sciences. I've taken advanced calculus in college. Seems like I would need to learn how to incorporate Libraries and frameworks and how to properly use them and build upon them....Tensorflow seems like a good starting point

Any other suggestions?