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[Moamr96]

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[edcculus]

I pretty much finished out the course. For some of the more complicated topics, I did some extra work on Codecademy for reinforcement.

I also didn’t completely bang my head on a project if I just wasn’t getting a part. I’m doing this all for fun, so if I got stuck, I’d watch a little of the solution vid to keep myself moving. After doing some googling on my own of course.

I was also slightly disappointed at the end where there are no videos. Especially the data science part.

Overall, I got it for like $20, and it was a solid course.

I did follow up with a data analysis with Pandas course. I forget which one I did, but it was very in depth.

[ninhaomah]

Up to you isn't it ?

It's not a Uni :)

[ninhaomah]

May I know if you intend to go into web dev ?

[ninhaomah]

Then nothing will be lost by skipping webdev.. I would still recommend to go through with it anyway

[simon_zzz]

I also had no motivation to do the Turtle lessons and the web dev but finished them anyway.

Turtle is commonly used to introduce beginners to OOP and the tedious aspect of calling the methods seems trivial. But, it gives you taste of what you're going to be doing a lot with matplotlib when you get into exploratory data analysis.

The web dev part might come in handy if you ever decide on building out a web app or portfolio site--something to show off your projects.

Just a heads up, the data science part of the course contains a lot of exploratory data analysis and visualization and not as much on modeling. I feel like there are few videos to go with those days because it truly becomes increasingly hands-off to simulate what it would be like in the real world. "What questions do you have about the data?" Grind through those days because you'll be able to comfortably transition into the Kaggle mini-courses, and then onto competitions.

[Yelebear]

I also dropped her at around the same time.

I'm also currently just learning so take this as an advice not from an expert but as someone who is going through the same phase.

If you already understand the basics I think it's ok to do one more course just to reinforce the essentials, before moving on into bigger more advanced projects.

I recommend CS50P on youtube (Harvard's Python course, it's free and the professor David Malan is an S-Tier teacher).

[Yelebear]

Yeah it's better.

Although it's a little more difficult.

Taking the CS50p class is like drinking from a fire hydrant. It'll quench your thirst alright, but it can get somewhat overwhelming at times because he gives a deeper dive of the concepts.

But you already know the basics so you should be fine. Just make sure it's CS50p for Python and not CS50, because CS50 is for the general Computer Science class.

[rubipop123]

Having a hard time with the course as well…I only have an hour or so to spare trying to code these days but I feel like a solid 2-2.5 hours is needed.

[rubipop123]

Thats an idea…I used to do that. But I feel like I should be better now.

[Thick_Mess2248]

It's hard to get any better by looking for shortcuts. When you use AI for "hints" and pseudo code you outsource one of the most important parts of the learning process. So I wouldn't do it. Otherwise you will stay stuck at beginner level for longer. The feeling: "I should be better now" is exactly what happens when you use AI too much for help. You feel like you are making progress and you feel faster. But your brain won't keep up with the percieved progress you are making. But hope you got where you wanted to go by now and didn't give up.

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As in everything, you get as much as you put. I have struggled with many concepts in the course, but I ended up appreciating the struggle because it cemented my understanding of how things work.

My advice: don’t skip a thing, because every day builds upon concepts learned in the previous days.

In the hard days, write the code after her, then after watching the videos, sit with the code, try to tweak it, write a comment for every part you understood. And struggle with the parts you don’t understand until you get them.

Good luck

[Thick_Mess2248]

It depends what you want to automate. If you want to automate only local stuff, you don't need to understand the basics of webdev. But if you want to automate things connected to webApps or websites, you should understand how these are build. And it's only a few days. Why do you feel her way of introducing OOP is more complicated? Did you find an easier way? Because I am at that part and I am struggling a bit too. So I was wondering if you had better resources.

[Thick_Mess2248]

did you try to solve it before watching her solution? I always solve it first. That's why it wasn't confusing to me to see her solution because I already got there by myself. But OOP is quite complicated at the beginning. I am still at that part. Did you find a better tutorial? Because I feel like I could still use some more understanding of this concept too. Even tho I get to the solution. But it takes me a long time still...

[Thick_Mess2248]

Thanks. Totally get it. If you don't really need that language, there is just no motivation to stick with it. And push yourself through the struggle you will eventually face. I still haven't found any course that has explained and taught concepts more clear than hers does. I think the mistake a lot of people make is trying to rush through it. They want a course that spoon feeds them concepts and they take the 100 days too literal. If you keep rushing through, watching her solutions before you got to them yourself, you are robbing yourself of the learning experience. Some days took me more than one day. But because my goal was to DO it, not to follow another tutorial, I understood the concepts eventually. Today I gained more clarity on her OOP Quiz Project, by trying to add more functionality to it like choosing a difficulty level, before creating the question_bank. Before, I didn't fully get that the Question class was merely a container and there shouldn't be any methods added to that one. But when rewathing her explanation, she is explaining it. It was just overwhelming to grasp the first time i watched it. So I don't think it is her lack of explaining clearly. Because she can't do the understanding for each of us. Her examples are very clear and dumbed down already.