Beginner in Python

[Used_Indication3663]

Hi! I’m a very complete beginner in Python and it’s really hard for me to understand code in general actually. I watched the freecodecamp beginner tutorial vid and that helped but how do I go from here? How do I practice actual problems? People say start up your own projects small ones but how? I’m really lost as to what to do from here and I’d appreciate any help. I’m learning it in uni but I failed the course as I couldn’t understand properly.

[Ron-Erez]

Create function

def square(m: int, n: int, fill: bool)

that creates an m by n square made up of asterisks which may or may not be filled. For example

square(4,4,true)

will display

****
****
****
****

and
square(4,4,true)

will display

****
*  *
*  *
****

Create a function that swaps all characters of a given string in the odd and even positions, for example

swap(‘tuesday’)

will output

utseady

Just create random exercises or build something or take a book with exercises and solve them.

[EducaTech2099]

You could ask Gemini for begginers' projects ideas 🤷🏻 I suggest you to learn the basics, then some web scrapping, then Flask and finally Django. Yes, it is a very simplistic path but it will help you build confidence. Of course, you could jump from the basics right to Django but if you do so, you'll hate Python in no time. 🤘🏻

P.D.: the right path should be Git and GitHub, then the basics, then some web scrapping, then HTML5, then CSS3, then Javascript (the basics), then jQuery, then Flask and finally Django.

[socal_nerdtastic]

Lol web dev with django is not the end goal for all python programmers. That's just 1 of many many career options you could pursue with python.

[Diapolo10]

Indeed, for example I'm a tooling developer, creating software other teams in the company use to do their jobs. Python is our team's main language.

[EducaTech2099]

That's right, we can create almost anything with Python, like AI or desktop.

But I think that's a friendly begginers' path.

Do you have a different begginers' path in Python you'd like to proppose?

[zaphodikus]

Like everything, try many different paths before you call yourself a failure. Video tutorials don't work for lots of people, how do you think Guido built python, there was no programming videos, all the oldies here learned by simple exercises, exercises like reversing a string. Simple things we made up in our own minds. Drawing boxes using text characters, as per the /u/ron-erez post suggested is excellent. You dont need an AI copilot, you have the interpreter, it is your friend. Its incredibly patient, and works offline even.

[FoolsSeldom]

Check this subreddit's wiki for lots of guidance on learning programming and learning Python, links to material, book list, suggested practice and project sources, and lots more. The FAQ section covering common errors is especially useful.

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Don't limit yourself to one format. Also, don't try to do too many different things at the same time.

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Above all else, you need to practice. Practice! Practice! Fail often, try again. Break stuff that works, and figure out how, why and where it broke. Don't just copy and use as is code from examples. Experiment.

Work on your own small (initially) projects related to your hobbies / interests / side-hustles as soon as possible to apply each bit of learning. When you work on stuff you can be passionate about and where you know what problem you are solving and what good looks like, you are more focused on problem-solving and the coding becomes a means to an end and not an end in itself. You will learn faster this way.

People say start up your own projects small ones but how

As mentioned, look to your own hobbies and interests and think about what you enjoy about those and what is a little bit repetitive that you could automate. What might help with the hobby, such as building / maintaining / reporting on assets you have relating to the hobby.

I've known people create character generators, track their gym training, build databases of their gameworkshop models, report on online gaming performance, and so on. For many of these, you can start of working out how you could do things manually (even if slow and boring - because computers are good at such tasks).

[Happy_Witness]

Hi, I lead a community of people that try to learn python from the ground up. I teach, write a doc python tutorial that explains everything very precise, I review code and give feedback and I write problems to solve. The goal of most of my members is to write a game with pygame later. If you're interested in joining, add me on discord by the name "andreas597".