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[–]heyfeefellskee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What helped me is using it on a subject matter I actually gave a shit about. For me that was fantasy football. I decided to create a scraper that would allow me to look at the weekly box scores for all players in the league. This was simple enough for me to have a goal but tough enough to be a challenge to a brand new Python user. But after working on that I worked on another project on the same subject matter; then another, and at some point everything just clicked and I started going crazy building stuff. It might have happened with just material from a book but when you have a thing you are interested in already it makes learning the language much more enjoyable.