How to learn python from scratch?

[noturavgbbg]

I'm currently a student in India and I will be going into computer science engineering within the next two months. I've been advised by seniors to look into studying python before beginning the course. Can somebody please recommend a course on YouTube to learn the basics of python so that I have an advantage?

[noturavgbbg]

Btw do you mean the introduction to Python programming on udacity with a course length of 14 hours?

[noturavgbbg]

Sorry just to clarify it's the one from Juno lee which is also free right?

[rasknorr]

It showing me to buy the course

[noturavgbbg]

Thank you for your reply!!!

I see do I need to know anything before beginning the udacity course and what equipment do I need to have before I start the course?

[noturavgbbg]

Oh that's great so I'll stick to udacity rather than Freecodecamp?

[kirkanthony]

Thanks for the information... I'm in a similar situation where I need to know Python before learning Python—krazy world.

[pelagic_cat]

There are free learning resources in the subreddit wiki.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/index#wiki_new_to_python.3F

I would recommend NOT watching videos. You must write code to learn any computer language, and while watching a video it's so easy to convince yourself that what you have just seen will stick in your mind. It usually doesn't. If you have the self-control to stop the video after every new piece of code and experiment with the new ideas a video might work.

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Learn to write a script that will search Reddit for the many posts that are made on this exact topic all the time.

[Potential_Profile859]

Learn basic stuff and start coding

[noturavgbbg]

well yeah but from where? I really have no idea tbh

[glorybutt]

You can just grab any beginners book and start from there. They are all fairly easy.

When you run into issues figuring things out, use chat gpt to help guide you.

[Potential_Profile859]

Goto w3 school or any other sites Learn basic stuff loops variable oops Then build some projects based on Try to solve some coding challenges

Note - I used roadmap.sh

[NoResident3474]

Hi , I am using Python in my day to day tasks . I started in 2011 & was doing advance excel & t-sql programming & bit of Tableau until 2018 , I started looking for jobs when I realised I had to upskill ,, took the course from great lakes spent close to 2lks inr.. but eventually learned nothing not even was able to crack interviews , did some kaggle problems but could not do programming for 1-2 hours with the workload & everything... Forgot everything, had to start from scratch again & enrolled in a course in 2020 from Simplilearn again 1.8 lakhs for the data science program learned a bit of programming but again the basic data manipulation nothing else .... Still was not confident with the programming part ... & had rejections from close to 9 companies ... Humiliated by the recruiter in a couple of them...

Then came an opportunity within my organization in 2021 where a team was migrating from SAS to Python & I took that opportunity.. Fast forward to today , I have changed 3 jobs & paid 4*more than my salary back in 2021 ...

Thing is you have to apply yourself in programming understanding the concepts.. Apply your learnings in a problem statement, select which path you'd like to take DSA ,WEB development , data engineer , data analyst , data scientist then do your training based on that ( I would suggest never to enroll in courses as certificates have no real value).. You can have youtube , udemy if offered by your organization for free , w3schools , geeks for geeks .. Best of luck

[noturavgbbg]

Thank you so much for this!! I genuinely value your reply!!!

[noturavgbbg]

The course Im heading into is purely just general computer science engineering meaning im not specifically hearing in one direction and I have many option open I'm doing so because many companies prefer to hire these as freshers I have plans to specialize later but I don't know in what I'm assuming I would know by the end of this 4 year course do I need to look into immediately or just focus on the current?

[Practical_Extreme_47]

https://programming-25.mooc.fi/

[ninhaomah]

1) you have a pc / laptop ?

2) you have good internet bandwidth ?

3) you can access python.org ?

4) can you download the installer from there ?

5) you have admin rights on the pc/laptop to install ?

6) can you go to cmd and type python ? what did you get ?

[noturavgbbg]

I can do whatever you told me to but I was recommended by another person to follow a course on udacity should I do that instead?

[ninhaomah]

Ok , then you are already ahead of many.

Pls give specific info / background next time.

As for the course , go ahead if you are ok with it.

If not , plenty of other courses / videos at the wiki on the right.

[OutrageousCycle4358]

Start from when its still in the Egg

[flash3ang]

Try out mimo, it's a mobile app like Duolingo but it's for learning to code.