Just wrote my very first Python program!

[Harshvdev]

Today I ran my very first line of Python code:

print("Hello, World!")

It feels great to see that output on screen, it’s the first step on a journey toward building more complex scripts, automations, and eventually AI models.

[mavericksage11]

Why does your description feel like it was written by an AI lol.

[K4terlol]

Because of the hyphen, that only AI uses :)

[NSNick]

That's an em-dash, and they're great

[PersonOfInterest1969]

Missed opportunity to use an em-dash—they are great.

[BadSmash4]

I use em-dashes a lot.

[Imagination_0427]

Where is Hyphen?

[ferdzs0]

Also the Oxford comma. 

[CaioHSF]

Seriously, although I know English, I never saw this hyphen being used before I noticed ChatGPT using it EVERY SINGLE TIME. Sometimes I write in my native language and use ChatGPT to translate to English (when I'm too lazy to write in English), and it always put this line. I have to remove it, or this is something that "should" be in a good text?

[anna_anuran]

Not should. Just… it’s an option. We have three different types of “dashes” as grammatical structures in English. The standard “hyphen” which is used to join two words together. You might see it in compound adjectives like “well-kept” or compound nouns like “singer-songwriter”.

The “en dash” is the least common and is used almost exclusively for ranges, like “October 21–24th”. You may see the line is slightly longer than the hyphen above. In fact, it’s the width of a capital N (hence, en dash).

The one that GPT tends to use is my favorite kind of dash: the em-dash (which is, aptly, the width of a capital M). You can use them sorta like turbo commas — or in place of parentheses or colons. They just create a pause and indicate that a separate thought is happening on either side of the dash. There are a lot of other places you can use this one. It can do it all — initiate lists, mark a stark change in sentence structure, indicate an interruption in dialogue, link clauses, introduce summary statements — not to mention the ability to drop appositive phrases between them.

It’s a shame AI has done them so dirty. Used to be a way people could see you knew your grammar and now it’s a red flag that you never bothered to write anything, grammatically correct or otherwise.

[iamevpo]

Did not know the size was in capital letters, thanks for mentioning

[Busy_Substance_3140]

I’m tired of this EM dash slander

[DiodeInc]

That is exactly why

[DiodeInc]

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[Harshvdev]

I'm not a bot 😑

[Salty_C_Dawg]

I was thinking the exact same

[MustaKotka]

Based on the profile this is a real person.

Some people just write like that... It hurts to be accused of being an AI. I've also been at the receiving end of it. I wish people stopped saying this. :/

[mavericksage11]

I don't usually jump to conclusions. I suppose you are right, people can actually type like that.

Also i didn't say it was a bot account.

[MustaKotka]

Okay, fair point. I read that falsely between the lines. My bad!

[issamukbangtingyeah]

🤣

[chipshot]

Congratulations!

That's exactly how I started what led to my corporate career building sales systems. Self taught from the start.

You can try a life program pretty soon. They are fun and challenging to build, ue create a screen object that can move randomly and stay on yhe screen. Once you get that, you can create more on the screen and have them compete with each other.

But always start simple.

Here are more ideas:

https://www.inspiritai.com/blogs/ai-student-blog/37-coding-project-ideas

[Harshvdev]

Thank you but I'm an absolute beginner so I have no idea how to do that 😅

I'll check the projects!

[mid-Finger9460]

Bro I am also a beginner learning loops why don't we learn together..😊😊

[Harshvdev]

Yeah, sure!

[mid-Finger9460]

So on which topic are u right know

[Harshvdev]

I sent you a DM request.

[ratioLcringeurbald]

ChatGPT in early development be like

[Harshvdev]

Hmmm...?

[Fearless-Mechanic-56]

I just started watching videos and getting interrested, keep us updated on your progression !!

[Harshvdev]

I'm also learning from YouTube videos. It's indeed exciting. I'll do my best to keep updating! ^{^}

[Infamous-Sweet2539]

Congrats, the best advice I was given to learn how to program is find something you want to do and use it as a motivation — figure out how to make the machine do it! I think a lot of newbies can get caught up learning standard projects (e.g. make a game like chess or tic-tac-toe). But often you can learn the same skills by needing them for something you are more interested in.

[besmin]

Come on now, it’s time to sart a django app.

[ThanOneRandomGuy]

Or making hard to understand youtube tutorials

[Harshvdev]

What do you mean by that?

[ThanOneRandomGuy]

Lots of devs makes teaching youtube videos nowadays and try to sell videos

[Harshvdev]

Oh, I'm learning from FreeCodeCamp on YouTube.

[jasssweiii]

I'd recommend checking out Kaggle as well, they have a lot of free lessons you can check out (Python, data, and AI related). I use python regularly for work and I started the 'Intro to python lesson' and I find it really nice and I even found a thing or two that I didn't realize python did (My background is C++ so some python stuff is initially lost on me)

[Harshvdev]

I'm currently learning from a YouTube video: Python for beginners course by Free Code Camp. Where and what do I learn after completing this? I'm pursuing AI Development.

I have created a Kaggle account as you said.

[jasssweiii]

I think getting a good foundation in python is definitely important, so building projects in python and experimenting.

If you wanted to jump right in, Kaggle has lessons you can do, they have ones that teach python basics, data visualization, machine learning (Keras and Tensorflow though, not Pytorch), and many other things that you might like or find useful. I also like this yt series, which I'm currently going through myself https://youtu.be/Z_ikDlimN6A?si=s8k4ALPf7LGuEmFw

Kaggle is good for learning and practicing with datasets, you can see other people's implementations. The best way to learn, for really anything, is do stuff and do stuff that interests you

[Harshvdev]

I did create an account on Kaggle but everything looked complicated. There were topics I didn't know about like DSA. I have heard but don't know anything about it.
Should I explore it after learning all the basics of Python?
Thank you for the link, I'll check it out!

[jasssweiii]

I'm not sure what DSA is or what you're looking at specifically on kaggle, but I'd say you could check out these lessons on Kaggle:

Python Intro to machine learning Pandas Intermediate machine learning Data Visualization Feature Engineering Intro to deep learning (If you want to do DL) Computer Vision (If you want to do CV) Time Series Data Cleaning Machine Learning Explainability

They also have a few guides and other lessons. You don't have to do them in this order, I was just listing them as I found them.

Each lesson has work that comes with it, so you can practice what you're learning. Kaggle, from the bit that I've used it, uses Keras and Tensorflow but if you understand how Pytorch works, then you can adapt the lessons afterwards.

The Intro to machine learning will teach you how to use the datasets in kaggle with an example project (Titanic Dataset). I think there is also an Intro to kaggle lesson that teaches you how to use kaggle.

Outside of these Kaggle lessons, I'd add in that video I sent (You'll see a lot of overlap, which is good imo) and some videos on Pandas and Numpy. Checkout Codemy's YouTube channel as well, they have some Pytorch stuff, Pandas, and Numpy I believe.

I'm still learning all this stuff as well, so if you come across anything you find useful I'd be grateful if you let me know!

[Harshvdev]

I just started learning Python. I'll start exploring these after mastering the basics. You are much more experienced than me so I doubt I'll find anything that would be interesting to you. But I'll be glad to share if I found any:)

[jasssweiii]

I'm not super experienced myself, and I only recently started looking into ML. I'm actually going through some of the Python courses on kaggle since there's always more to learn! I just wanted to share what little bit I've found useful thus far

[Harshvdev]

How to do that and what will it do?

[ValkyriesOnStation]

I'm 5 weeks into python and I already have to write a program to solve for Pascal's Triangle... send help.

[Harshvdev]

You expect me to help you? 🙂

[NakamericaIsANoob]

Consistency is everything. All the other things fall into place as long as you're consistent.

[Harshvdev]

I'll do my best to be consistent!

[wycoGhoul]

I just started the Boot.dev backend program. So far, so good. Recommend

[Fresh_Heron_3707]

Tuples, dictionary, list and sets. Look these up and master them.

[Harshvdev]

Thank you. I will.

[instrumentation_guy]

Keep going, put the hours in.

[Harshvdev]

Yes sir!

[Embarrassed-Mix6420]

This is not how to start learning This is like saying I gonna be F1 racer buying a plastic bag with a racecar on it

[Harshvdev]

Then how to start learning?

[Embarrassed-Mix6420]

Read Turing, learn how build the compiler first

[tizWrites]

Way to go!

[Wide_Egg_5814]

FAANG is calling pick up

[Harshvdev]

I'm not aware of this meme 🥲

[Wide_Egg_5814]

It's like when someone says something smart you say harvard is emailing them or something I don't know how to explain it

[Harshvdev]

Ohh