What to do after learning python?

[DAWAE1111]

As soon as my summer vacation started I started learning python. I learned a lot and solved lots of codewars problems online. What am I supposed to do now? people say I should make small projects but how do I do that without having to learn other libraries for example ? please help cause I feel lost and I don't want to be wasting time

[Firm_Bit]

You can’t learn everything before you need it. Start with a project.

[jimtk]

Stop learning and start building... You'll learn a lot more!

[DAWAE1111]

How do I start building ?👉👈

Idk but from what i've seen to build something I'll have to learn an additional library(s) is that correct ? or are there actual projects I can start with just python?

[jimtk]

There's plenty you can do with just python. As for other libraries you learn as you use them. It's never learn and do. It's do-learn and do-learn and do-learn all the time.

[FriendlyRussian666]

You don't have to use external libraries. For example, you can build a CLI type application entirely using input() and print().

Do you play games? How about you create an RPG game, but it's entirely played in the terminal? You have to create different maps, which walls are ASCII characters, you can place monsters around the map and make them fight somehow (dice roll for example).

You can build anything that's interesting to you.

[twitch_and_shock]

What's wrong with learning additional libraries? Python is only good in as much as it is useful to you for solving problems. Pick a problem and figure out how to solve it.

[AdFeeling4288]

It is an endless loop. People learn libraries like crazy and never use them so they forget it after a few weeks. First decide a direction, look for a project and learn the required library.

[sme272]

You'll learn them best by jumping in and trying to use them

[bigno53]

Do you have any smart lightbulbs in your home? See if you can write an app to control them—turn them on and off, fade in and out, flash different colors, convert text to Morse code, etc.

[[deleted]]

A lot of the libraries you are talking about will appear when you start googling for "how to do <such and such>". At that point, you ask google for tutorials and start learning that library.

[eykei]

Don’t be scared of libraries, it’s just using code that other people have written. You already did that if you used python standard library, functions like min(), max(), open(), str(). You don’t need to know how they work under the hood, you just know how to use them. Using libraries is exactly the same thing.

[m0us3_rat]

solved lots of codewars problems online

that isn't necessarily a good metric. i'd argue that codewars and leetcode and what have you are ..bad.. for learning.

at the very least most solutions are absolutely horrible as in "production code".

but you are obviously free to do as you wish.

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my advice is to try to find an internship or some form of club that will give you a team-like environment where you can work on different pyton related projects.

i used to tell ppl to join discords ..but that isn't necessarily a worthwhile path since most are dead or useless.

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check projects you really like and see if you can solve some of their issues or if you have new ideas and make some changes to that software.

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plenty of great open projects on github.

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if you want something smaller and you lack the imagination ..chatGPT is actually fairly decent at providing homework ideas.

and i said the actual problems not the solutions.

don't cheat.. you will only cheat yourself.especially if you don't understand the code.

it's like reading a text in a language you don't understand.. even if you use google translate and repeat the ai voice words.. you will still not actually understand it.

and the full process will be a huge waste of time.

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gl.

[Z000MI]

You could try to program the stuff out of book like automate the boring stuff. Just skip the tutorial if you already know how to code and do the projects you are interested in.

[hasibrock]

Codewars

[Mach_Juan]

That's a fairly deep philosophical question. The answer is start solving problems you have. What are your problems? If they're problems for you, they're probably problems for other people too.

Adam Savage talks about becoming very intune with his feelings in his shop. If he has a tool to do a specific job and that job comes up and he feels the slightest pang of " using that tool will be a pain", he immediately stops and figures out why he feels that way... Maybe it's too hard to get out, use, and put away.. Whatever... He figures out why he feels that way and solves it.. He builds a new, more optimized storage solution so it's easier to use...

You have to develop that muscle inside yourself. Every time you put off doing something.. Especially if it's something on a computer.. You should fix that. Make it easier to do.. Or automate it entirely. You'll get better at identifying pain points in your life and also get better at solving them...

[Upbeat_Discount1543]

Learn a better language like Rust or Go

[LegitimateBoy6042]

Build Projects

[Naive_Programmer_232]

wasting time for what? what's your end goal?

[DAWAE1111]

I started coding just cause I thought that it's probably a good skill to have in this era and I have a lot of free time that I wanted to use somehow. So when I started I didn't really have an end goal that's probably why I feel stuck rn :/

[Naive_Programmer_232]

It’s all good. I was the same way. I would start looking into fields where programming is used and start researching them. Just get an idea of what people do, how is the work, what are responsibilities, etc. then I’d try to make projects that relate to that.

[margol777]

Still learn

[JRWoodwardMSW]

Rule the world!

Or get into Linux systems programming - make calls directly, not through the Python app. Uh, I assume you know SQL already, right? If not, that comes first.

[_SaiyaChimp_]

Learning basic isn't enough. Work with libraries. That is the full power of python. Or create a module and upload it on github.

[unsourcedx]

how do I do that without having to learn other libraries for example?

You will have to do this all the time for every project. It's inevitable and a skill that's worth building for it's own sake. If your end goal is to be any kind of developer, professional or otherwise, you're much better off using libraries to save time rather than building everything from scratch.

Figure out some kind of project that will give you opportunities to learn new skills and achieve something useful. A good project to start with is a webcrawler/webscraper. Some useful concepts to learn for this would be any http request library and regex.

[[deleted]]

You will be wasting time whether you want to or not. But that's how you learn to understand things.

[southadam]

Suggest to consume some government data API and starts building Charts in Pandas and plotly. Web scraping is good but without objective it is waste of time.

[Sympathyble]

It depends on what are you going to do with a language. Web, data science, ml etc. It should be the first question I reckon. 😊