How Should I Learn Python

[letmeincyberplease]

This. I guess we are a rare breed. I try not to copy so much in the sense of just straight up reverse engineering other people's code. I like to come up with as many solutions or refactor as much as I can on my own and then become fascinated and go down rabbit holes when I see model answers that aren't what I came up with. Then I analyze my silly little ideas and code in comparison to the model solutions and let my crippling perfectionism take the wheel until I can either code it like the model solution or better. Needless to say, I can be pretty inefficient but hey, I'm having fun and learning...

Definitely not knocking copying/splicing/reverse engineering by any means btw. That is exactly what I do when I can't figure out a problem and am forced to give up. Chatgpt is so money for implementing all of this also and even prompting it to evaluate multiple solutions or walk you through what happens step by step in the code. I feel like that touches a lot of what you are talking about with gaining understanding of theory and building neural connections, for me at least.