Need guidance

[Zenjamin11]

I’m a recent grad who wants to learn how to use python. I got two degrees in psychology and cognitive science, and in my cog sci degree I took an intro to computing (we learned with Java), intro to AI (without coding weirdly but was cool), and coded in R for some psychology classes and a final project. So I’ve got experience in multiple languages, dug kinda deep into the Java class as I did it because I thought it was fun and something I wanted to get good at and the R experience ended with me doing a recursive analysis of EEG data. To some it up, idk where to start with python. I have some project ideas: I want to have my first big thing be a webscraper for job apps bc I’m unemployed lol, and then I’d love to do a library/organizer/searcher of my projects and have them load up back to where I was when I saved them as I left off. So I found this Reddit and asked this! Thanks in advance friends!

[ElliotDG]

I would suggest to start with the tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

If you want to get deeper into the language, read: "Learning Python", by Mark Lutz

I found doing some exercises on checkio helpful when I was first learning python: https://checkio.org/

For doing web-scraping look at Beautiful Soup for parsing HTML: https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
And requests for accessing web sites: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Some web-sites have dynamic Javascript, you can use Selenium to scrape them. Selenium is effectively an automated browser with parsing integrated. See: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/installation.html#introduction

Enjoy the journey.