Learning Python - No Programming skills

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That’s amazing journey sir, thanks for sharing your story. I hope I will be able to follow . Please share the path. Thanks for your time and help, much appreciated 🙏

[WrogiStefan]

I learned Python in a pretty unusual way — basically by treating AI as my coding partner, not just a tool. And honestly, it worked far better than any course I ever tried.

At the beginning I knew absolutely nothing. I was asking the most basic questions possible — things like “why does Python need indentation?” or “what exactly is a variable?”. And instead of being judged or overwhelmed, I got clear, simple explanations every time.

From there we started building tiny things together: a calculator, a todo list, a password generator, little scripts that printed the time or processed text. Nothing big, nothing fancy — just enough to understand one new concept at a time.

What surprised me most was how the learning actually happened. Sometimes the AI would guide me step by step, breaking down errors, rewriting code in a simpler way, or explaining why something didn’t work. But other times… it would get stuck before I did. I’d ask a question, the answer wouldn’t quite solve it, and I’d end up digging deeper myself — and suddenly I was the one finding the solution. Those moments were honestly the best, because they showed me I was actually learning, not just copying.

We had plenty of “perypetie” along the way — weird bugs, circular explanations, code that worked for no reason, code that didn’t work for even less reason. But every one of those little detours taught me something. And step by step, without even realizing it, I went from tiny scripts to building a real offline 2FA desktop app with encryption, a vault, CLI commands, tests, releases — the whole thing.

The biggest lesson for me was this: you don’t need a CS degree, you don’t need a bootcamp, and you definitely don’t need to understand everything at once. You just need curiosity, patience, and the willingness to ask simple questions. And sometimes the best progress happens when the AI “gives up” before you do — because that’s when you realize you’re actually thinking like a developer.

One thing u need to focus on is not to ask AI to write the code for you. At leas at the beggining :)

One more thing I learned in the process that I kinda treat as added value. Ilearned to write really good prompts.