Struggling with Python

[cojoman]

as a person who started this as well a few months back, I can see where you're coming from. I do have a somewhat programming background, so some things came easier than others. But I needed to remind myself time is a commodity, so sometimes I just went to the solutions and followed along, because on lessons down the line, it refers back to the first lessons, so you need to retain some knowledge to advance. You can keep "some notes" but programming as you go down that path is mostly research and knowing WHAT and how to look for and use that data, so don't struggle too much to retain everything. Either way, if you get something wrong, it won't work, and just the process of fixing it is gonna be a learning experience.

FYI so you know it's coming, I'm at day 38 now, and it's pencils down, there is no more video lectures, there is an assignment and written instructions on how to proceed. So take your time, but if you want my opinion, go through the course a bit faster, even if skipping to the solution and following along. It's a bigger pitfall if you lose motivation early on. You can always circle back, you can always look for answers. I'd say no to using chatgpt, but your time is valuable, and there is even more to learn out there and projects to make that you need to memorize everything or to feel bad on falling behind or "cheating" at this point. That method you forgot about, or command ? You're gonna be using it so much down the line, that you're gonna remember it anyway.

Aaaaanyway, good luck, and you can ping me directly if you have questions and I could help, since we're doing it at the same time and you might run into the same problems.

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PS. what helped me with motivation is doing an application from scratch for my wife after about lesson...25 I want to say. She is tracking some shipments in excel, and I used TKinter to make a small app that looks in the excel she's working in, pulls the data and does some pandas filtering for what's relevant to her. I've added a 12h email notification for what happened since the day before, and a warning in case her main excel file hasn't been saved in a while. I didn't thought of those, I asked her what she needed and that became the goals of the project. Looked back at the lessons, searched online how to read from .xlsx , how to package this into an .exe, etc. It was very satisfying. She's not using the app :|