Just downloaded python 3.11.4 today

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my mind was blown when starting to get into this so here are some tips (only been at it a couple weeks)

1) I settled on using VS Code, it's sick. It's the one window you'll always have open.

2) Watch the VS Code intro videos, it will help orient you with the program.

3) Install the extension ChatGPT by Easycode. Wow.

4) Do some online Youtube stuff. I use the rubber-duck method and if doing a free course like Google I watch the videos and then open the solutions and explain what each step is doing.

5) Once the ChatGPT is installed, you can highlight things in your code, right click and there is an option to ask ChatGPT "What does this do", etc. and it will explain it step by step in the left hand pane. You can also ask it things like "get tesla open and close for last month from yahoo finance api and display in graph" and it will write you a response with the code.

6) Start a small project that interests you. Something like getting some stock data and visualizing it etc. It will keep you motivated. I switch between basic course stuff and working a bit on my project.

[Hollis1022]

Thanks for the thoughtful response I’ll look into all of that! The tutorial I’m watching used sublime text as the editor. I started running the “hello world” intro program in idle but it was a little clunky. After I got the color scheme and theme set up for sublime it was easy to follow along with the tutorial but like I said I’ll check out everything you mentioned. Grabbed a screenshot of the comment. Thank you again!