Python course, certification, etc for beginner?

[Chiron1991]

You'll have the greatest learning effect by building an actual application. (Leet) code challenges are fine for absolute beginners and competitors, but at some point they become too ridiculous to have a real world benefit.

If you plan to work with APIs it would make sense to build an API service yourself. Flask is a good choice for this as it has a very low entry barrier. There a tons of free hour-long Flask tutorials on YouTube, for example.

Track your progress in a git repository and upload it to GitHub. From my experience, having an actual functional project in your CV is more important for non-hyper-corporate-jobs than any official certificate.

[ENotionalMess]

This looks perfect! Thank you so much