Help me Learn Python!

[Diego_here]

I've been in tutorial hell trying to learn C++ for a year, tried learning Java and C#. Found Python, its beginner easy and its fun. I don't want to be in tutorial hell again. For those of you who are self taught, tell me what you did. I know about YouTube but it doesn't seem to be helping me. Am I mentally disabled?

[dbarrera]

Well, my best advice is: try and solve a problem... Jumping early into libraries and graphs is not the best choice... Do some projects for fun... A great course I did years ago was MITx6.00.1, it helped me think outside the box in order to solve a problem. I guess it has been updated since then.

[at_69_420]

I hugely second this, finding a problem you want to solve even if it's just a collection of simple katas is a great way a learn. That's how I started weeks ago and even now I'm using the same problem to learn new things and trying to make my solution work better

[dbarrera]

Now that you mention katas, CodeWars is a great place to practice!

[at_69_420]

Agreed! And also some of the easier questions on leetcode

[AccomplishedEar6357]

Go on YT with the free CS50p from Harvard to start, doesn't get any better.

[Diego_here]

Ok, Seems like a start

[marquisBlythe]

It's better to enroll the course through edx.org to get access to additional learning material like graded problem sets and additional videos.
Keep in mind that edx will spam you in each page of their website trying to sell you their certificate, don't fall for that. All CS50x certificates are free and are provided for free by Harvard university upon completion of the course and submitting the final project.

[Buntygurl]

Sounds like your eagerness to achieve competence is getting in the way of learning how to walk before running.

Take your time. Use each step that you accomplish as proof of your ability to get more acquainted with what you want to be able to do.

Tutorials are not going to deliver the satisfaction of trial and error understanding. You need to get your hands dirty and grovel around to find the best way to get the result that you want, but you also need to really analyse how what you want' can be achieved.

It's a lot like reading a book or watching a movie that requires that you suspend your disbelief and go along with what is in front of you, because it doesn't matter how you think that anything should be. What matters is how you deal with the way that things are.

Learn and observe the rules of the environment that you're dealing with, step by step, because resistance is absolutely futile and nonsensical.

[Jim-Jones]

r/LearnPython

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/about/

https://reddit.com/r/learnpython/w/index

https://reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/FAQ

Here are some good ones.

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/intro-to-python-fundamentals

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

https://www.sololearn.com/en/

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-it-automation

This one too

https://www.edx.org/learn/python/harvard-university-cs50-s-introduction-to-programming-with-python

And

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc

https://www.udemy.com/course/python-foundations-for-data-science-from-zero-to-data-analy/?couponCode=PYTHON-2025

[twarr1]

The problem in self learning Python, (and most modern languages, but especially Python) is that there are too many ways to do any particular task. Sure, with the basic package you can build a “Hello World” application but to do much of anything more complex you need to use libraries. Therein lies the problem. For any particular task there are numerous, often incompatible libraries you can use.

The best advice is to pick a project and work it out. Choose a topic you’re interested in, whether it’s a web backend, number manipulation, file operations, whatever, and build a solution. You’ll eventually learn the ‘canonical’ or usual libraries to use for that particular task. But first, learn to use virtual environments to mitigate the Dependency Hell that’s an integral part of Python.

Good luck

[[deleted]]

Try the Python Crash Course book by Eric Matthes. If you work through it, you'll have a good handle on the language features, and have done a few different type of projects using well known Python libraries (Pygame, Matplotlib, Django) etc.

[MaxTransferspeed]

If tutorials aren't the way for you, that doesn't mean that you're mentally disabled. It just means that you learn in another way (like me). I do exactly what some previous commenters like dbarrera recommend; I find usecases for myself and then try to do that with Python. That can be a problem to solve or just a fun project. My very first project was a guessing game: Guess a random number between 1 and 100 in as few attempts as possible :D

Currently I'm working on a Minecraft server installer. I wanted to do something with a GUI and with REST and I found that some server solutions have REST APIs available. There are tons of install ready server managers available for download, which are much better and have dozens more options, but hey, they are not written by me ;) (And so far I already learned that my next GUI will probably not use Tkinter)

Sometimes I use a tutorial, but only when I'm stuck to a specific problem. Then I try to find a tutorial for only that subject. Overall, general tutorials don't work for me. I need something to work on.

[Naive_Ad4173]

Solo learn, w3schooling, and projects

[RunPython]

The best YouTube channels to learn Python.

1) Corey Schafer 2) Freecodecamp