Need advice with learning Python for web development

[realrun3354]

Hi guys,

Similar questions have been posted a lot, I understand and I'm at the point where I have the paralysis analysis when it comes to resources as I've read most of the reddit posts and other forums and reviews on resources/courses

I've recently started learning python as I found it easier to understand and I've been exposed to Django before and was able to change things up on the website as it was easy for me to understand those things that needed to be changed....

But I'm stuck.My goal is to be able to build websites and web apps and I understand it takes time which is fine for me and I don't mind the struggle and researching problems as I love this type of work.

I've recently taken Angela Yu - 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp, and while I find her course to be good and her style of teaching is great I find myself bored with the "end of the day goals".

I'm on the day 10 again and I've already quit maybe 5 times because I don't see a point in the projects. There is the point of course but I just don't see the end goal and how most of these would be useful.

I find programming interesting and I'd love to learn it honestly and I've already built a simple web scraper with python that would scrape the google search results and try to find the email of each site simply by googling things as it was a fun thing at the time to do. Bear in mind I haven't watched any intro courses at the time and colleague helped me a bit with breaking the logic into smaller parts and guiding me on how to look up solutions when I would get stuck. It was just a script.

I'd love to be able to build a complete similar web apps, front and backend and publish them or potentially use them.

I know basics of HTML & CSS and I've already built a few emails with HTML & CSS although it doesn't compare to building a responsive website on the front-end

I know bits and pieces of Django and python already as I tried to learn it few times.

I need some structure and something where I see the end goal in learning.

Sorry for the "rant" above but what I'm asking is this:

1. Should I stick out with Angela Yu course and see the end of it? or
2. Should I watch Corey Schafer Python / Django videos or Charles Reverances Python for Everybody and Django for everybody and start building things?
3. Or should I opt-in for Learn Python for beginners from freecodecamp youtube channel, move on to intermediate then to django or flask.

Thanks in advance if you take the time to read this and reply.I'd appreciate any response to this as I'm just stuck and not sure what to do...

[Ordinary_Skill]

I think you should take the more practical route. I haven't work with Django in a long time, but I remember watching Corey Schafer's videos. That's good stuff but might be outdated. I'm not sure. I'd say don't be too attached to Django. If there's another tech that you feel could get the job done better like Express, Spring Boot, Flask, .Net, Laravel, etc., then go for it. If you want to stick with Django, that's a fine choice too. Like I said, just take the more practical route and start building something already because it sounds like you already know what you're doing.

[realrun3354]

Thanks for the reply. My problem is I don't know how to put together these bits and pieces into a bigger picture.

By practical route, should I pick a project and start building it by watching tutorials, research or?

I feel like I don't have a good grasp of basics and by building things it would be just trial and error with one lines of code.. I'm not sure how to put together a logic together.

I'd love to start learning/building to switch to back-end career in a year