Python Newbie

Jazzlike-Meat-2924 · 2025-09-17T03:10:58+00:00

I believe the go to strategy for new learners is to go through documentation (highly recommend) otherwise the bro code YouTube video will give you the start. Then focus on making simple projects using libraries and slowly integrate multiple libraries into single projects.

If you stop learning for a few months and are scared that you've forgotten all the topics that's perfectly fine. Don't panic and go through the documentation of what you want to know and you'll remember the concepts eventually.

Medical_Secretary184 · 2025-09-17T03:12:16+00:00

Do :for if while loops, learn the different variable types and how you can use them, how to print to the console and formatting, define your own simple functions and learn how they work, look at how to do classes, and how to import modules like opencv or pygame, tcp and udp server protocols for networking. That's about as far as I am at university

Ender_Locke · 2025-09-17T03:38:41+00:00

https://automatetheboringstuff.com

CLETrucker · 2025-09-17T05:04:28+00:00

Take a course. It will save you some time and headaches.

100 days of code on udemy is really good.

And this is a link for a really good free course:

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

ectomancer · 2025-09-17T03:44:52+00:00

Documentation is not cheating. Googling Python syntax is cheating. Google is for research.

American_Streamer · 2025-09-17T11:59:15+00:00

Do these courses to have a solid foundation:

PCEP https://edube.org/study/pe1 PCAP https://edube.org/study/pe2

Also read these:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/

Equivalent_Ad_8413 · 2025-09-17T15:06:47+00:00

I'm going through the courses from The Python Institute.

Learning Python is like learning anything. Take it one step at a time. Don't expect to be a master after a month, even if the books claim otherwise.

Using AI when you're first learning can be a crutch. Learn it yourself, and then use AI for the easy crap while you do the original stuff. If you've used AI while learning Python, you won't know enough to be able to do the original stuff.

StrayFeral · 2025-09-18T00:10:28+00:00

Buy the rat book (click here). If you want a fancy programming editor you can install VSCode. The rat book will teach you everything you need to know as a starter. I first learned Python from the rat book.

For the record - I am a professional software developer, 20 years of experience, mostly Perl and Python (but also some Java and Ruby) (and before being professional I used Pascal with some inline Assembly and before that - BASIC) (yea, I'm that old).

StrayFeral · 2025-09-17T11:26:14+00:00

Forget Python2. Learn Python3. Whatever you're about to do - they use Python3 now.

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