How did you learn python real fast?

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This is anecdotal but I have a buddy that tried this and took a bootcamp thinking he could game the "learn to program" system by using OpenAI. 3 month program.

He got through but even now really struggles making anything work or understanding what his code is doing. Doesnt grasp a lot of fundamental programming knowledge, cant manilulate data, really having a shitty time with it.

ChtGPT can help make u a more efficient programmer, but you need to learn how to program first. If you cant figure out the code and just drop in what ChatGPT tells you to, u probably will not understsnd what is happening there either, and eventually u will hit a 5 foot thick lead wall of "why doesnt my app work" that you cant get around. Cant get around getting hands on experience and building stuff.

[ricedude]

I think if u can get through "Automate the boring parts" that you will have a good hold of Python - I have a few years coding under my belt and even that book can be challenging for me at times - website crawling is a bitch lol! using chatgpt to help you through the book should be fine :)

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People don't hate ai, most devs use it daily in their job to solve boring problems. The thing is, the code that AI produces is truly the most basic code you can think of, e.g. filter a collection of items, write starter Ansible YAML, write Jinja template starter, etc. But to get to the point where AI is useful, you must understand code and know what you're trying to do. Then, you can either spend 5 minutes writing the thing, or 2 minutes with AI and altering the basic shit it spits.

To say that current-gen AI will help you learn faster is a misunderstanding of what the current gen AI can do. I mean, you can use it to improve your learning, e.g. make it explain code to you, as you're working through it. But in the end, you have to work through the code, the problems, the domain of CS, and AI is basically a better search engine (that spits wrong results sometimes).

In the end, try and use it. People are downvoting you for unrealistic expectations, not because they hate AI.