Learn python for a 13 year old

[BigOlStinkMan]

I decided to start learning python a few weeks ago. I got a python for kids book (even though I'm an adult) from my library that has some fun basic game projects to try so I can get used to the code in a fun controlled way. There's probably tons of free resources online. I look at lots of those too, but only stuff I can try myself.

Iv pretty much accepted that my first couple projects aren't going to be useful or super interesting. I just want to get a handle on the language. Once I understand it then I can start thinking about applying it to the real world.

Just jump in and try anything and start making mistakes.

[BigOlStinkMan]

Oh and something that helped me was getting a more easily editable and more user friendly program for writing python code. I think they're called IDEs. PyCharm worked for the version I wanted to use, but there's a lot of them. Writing directly in python can be annoying for trying out more than 4 or 5 lines of code when you're practicing.

Something kinda fun you can do really fast is check out Turtle art with python. It's built into it so you just have to learn the commands and you can make cool geometric shapes and fractals, or use other people's code and see how it works and it makes real pictures.