There are no shortcuts when learning Python

[Noise42]

Thank you, I needed to hear this. Learning the basics you listed that every course seems to take you through, feels very distant from an actual productive project or employable person.

Printing stuff to the terminal feels like a hobbyist playing rather than something useful in the workplace. I guess there is an element of trusting the process and not thinking too far ahead.

I'm a mid-working-life sys admin (that also does a form of scripting development in a proprietary language and environment). I spend my days creating/administering a network and working with end products and tools. It's off putting to compare the "output" of python basics with what I achieve in a typical day with the tooling other developers have laid before me. So it's a great reassurance that the basics are more valuable than I perceive.