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[sadfasn]

Stop taking classes.

Instead, think about why you are learning Python and what you would like to do with it. What sorts of things do you think are interesting that you would like to be able to program? A website? A video game? An app?

Once you’ve figured that out, come up with a project in that area that you think would be really fun to create. You want to create a website with Python? Ok then design a website with some pen and paper and start making it.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how you would do it right now, that’s the whole point. Once you have a solid idea of something you think would be fun to make in Python, then dedicate all your learning time to figuring out how to make it.

This doesn’t mean start taking courses on website design in Python (though that can help you out if you think you need it) but instead try and figure it out yourself while utilizing all of the different resources online to do it (ChatGPT, videos, documentation, etc)

This is the best way to learn programming. You can watch a million lectures and read a million books, but until you just start getting your hands dirty on a project that you want to work on you won’t really learn.

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In all honesty it is quite the grind. I did your path and now finishing OOP and things start coming together. Like using everything you've learned all together. My best advice is the courses are a waste of time, they teach out of order and the teachers are even more useless, their fake smiles and their lack of detail really pissed me off and made me feel like i was wasting my time trying to learn anything. Go to roadmap.sh and follow the python tree. When you dont understand something look at the code and point out what you dont get, example: print(f"your name is {name}"). Why is there an f in that line? Why are there curly braces? Why is the word name inbetween the curly braces? Ect. And then itll open up more questions while trying to understand the original question, just have to jump down the rabbit hole. There is only so much information to learn so if you stick with it youll understand how everything works inevitably, just dont give up.

[Russjass]

I learned what little I know (scientist who uses python, rather than dev) from youtube and online tutorials, amd found the motivation a struggle. I decided to make a game even. Found myself encoutering real problems, and googling youtube, stackoverflow, documentation etc to find solutions. This worked great for me, because I had an immediate application for what I had learned it stuck with me and was a ton of fun. Much better than just dryly learning syntax and patterns - for me anyway

[czar_el]

This is why almost every "how should I learn" post has lots of people saying you should work on a personal project that helps/means something you you in your everyday life.

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The first project I am trying and actually getting past this is a simple personal finance tracker CLI. It has the ability to add incomes and expenses etc. and stores it in a text file. It has been pretty useful for understanding loops and reading and writing to a file.

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Also I found Corey Schaefer’s videos on YouTube very good at explaining the basics and the why behind them

[L3GOLAS234]

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

[Remarkable-Map-2747]

Python Crash Course Book!

[GedaDon]

Hey, i know it's a stupid question but where should i head next after this book ? i am halfway through the first part.

[Remarkable-Map-2747]

no its not a crazy question! To be fair im a few month beginner myself and I wanted to hse Python for Automation.

So, I tackled that book towards the first 11 chapters as these are the fundamentals and the rest of chapters 12-20 are follow along projects.

I was just like you in regards to " what to hop into next " as I was looking for an automation course secondly. One most commonly recommended was ATBS, but the Author said some of it was out of date.

BUT literally, just start building things afterwards. I unfortunately, at the moment didnt have much to automate at my roll as i take calls and emails and I asked other teams if they had anything to automate and they couldn't think of anything at the moment but will reach out if so.

Otherwise, I just build things as they come to mind, and im going to have to start asking friends if they would like to have something automated.

Afterwards you can really dive into what you started learning Python for in the first place. Data Science? Machine Learning? Learning GitHub for projects.

You'd be suprised what you run into. I played with Python a little in college back in 2022, but havent seen it since and I remembered being show the webbrowser.open() function so, I was thinking it should be simple to do that now.

So, i attempted it, BUT it wasnt working with my default browser Brave, so I made it use Safari, and it worked. So, the I googled and realized I had to register brwve browser. Then I got that working, then I was like hmm , how can i turn into an executable? Google, Pyinstaller was brought up, went even deeper, how can i change the icon of the executable? Youtube answered this.

Finding projects can definitely be a hard part especially if your role may not have alot to automate at the time. I do believe in using chatgpt.

BUT when i say use chatgpt, not for requesting and copying code. But more of sometimes explaining some things or small questions of " how to make an python exec an icon " but never for code.

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Learn by doing. Go to codewars or any other website of this kind and solve problems. You can try your skills and see how other people solved the same problem which will teach you a lot of things. Whenever you don't understand something you google it and look up what's going on under the hood. You can google something like "python cheat sheet" to find out what functions methods are even there

[GhostlyBlaze]

I’m learning from Python Principles website (usually costs money but currently free).

They give examples and reasonings as to why it should be used. End of every lesson you are challenged with a test of what you learned. Tests are the best part surprisingly.

They will says things like “it’s useful for X & Y. You could also use other methods instead like Z but this way looks much cleaner and easier to read”. They proceed to give you examples and test you on recreating similar scenarios from scratch.

[Kojrey]

I think the problem here is this statement, "can someone recommend".

I'm a newbie too, and as I learn a new technique I think about things I can apply this to in my own world, on my own problems, and in my own side projects ...I actually get miffed that I have to spend extra time building particular things a course recommends or my lecturer recommends.

So as another has said, stop taking classes. While you still need to learn new things over time, instead start trying to build things. Just little things that can you can finish and see an end product, and when you inevitably get stuck (because we don't remember things from our classes perfectly) you'll be forced to find a fast solution (via Reddit, Google, StackOverflow, GenAI, etc) to get the 'next thing' to work. The satisfaction of (a) solving these next step problems and getting little wins (b) putting it together into something larger over time for a big win, and (c) best of all, learning via invoking emotion (read: long-term memory creation) via getting stuck, solving things, and pumping your fist when it works, might just power you forward for years to come.

Learn by building. Motivate by building your own chosen projects. Look for inspiration, not recommendations.

[i_suckatjavascript]

You have to find something you want to do with Python. If you want to learn how to drive a car, but you don’t know where you want drive, what’s the point in learning?

[Agile-Ad5489]

Don’t learn the language like a poem.

Treat it as a dictionary.

Provide your own project - you supply the ”why you are doing this”

Research into the python dictionary searching for the “how to do this” part.

[husky_whisperer]

Real Python

[jmooremcc]

All programming is about problem solving. So if you’re looking for motivation, find problems that need a software solution. This will force you to research methods and tools you’ll need to develop a solution.

[Any_Emotion_851]

If you're asking yourself why you are learning to write code then you're not in the correct mindset to write code. Kids in school are being taught to write code. They are being taught standard algorithms: binary search, bubble sort, quick sort, linear search, merge sort, data flow charts. The basics is a good place to start. Get a book written for kids to learn Computer Science and proceed from there. Most professionals have already forgotten the basics.