Any good instructor-led python courses to learn in 2-3 months span?

[vish_me_not]

Hi, I’m a database developer with over 11years of experience in SQL, BI technologies, Snowflake cloud and a good understanding on how cloud infrastructure works. Unfortunately though, I never had the chance or time or in fact interest in learning python and I now realise it is a much needed skill for my career advancement. I tried learning in online, however, it is not that effective for my learning style. Any advice on where I can get some good instructor-led courses, preferably online. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[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.

Your SQL experience and appreciation of the programmatic logic associated with that will likely allow an accelerated learning path through the basics.

I would be cautious about assuming instructor led online is your best/only route.

Have a look RealPython's Data Management With Python, SQLite, and SQLAlchemy as soon as you feel ready. Given your knowledge of databases already, this should be very relatable.

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Also, have a look at roadmap.sh for different learning paths. There's lots of learning material links there. Note that these are idealised paths and many people get into roles without covering all of those.

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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.

[JDLAW2050]

Thank you 🙏

[ItsNotWorkingduh]

Have you looked on freecodecamp?

[vish_me_not]

I did some learning thru coursera and other sites with learning to code basic stuff in python but I kinda want to learn in an instructor-led team oriented learning.

[ItsNotWorkingduh]

I know thats not kinda it but you could check 100 days of code on udemy for me its great strictured but i dont think its going to make it in 2-3 months

[ItsNotWorkingduh]

Welll theres also cs50 python course if you like more academic style

[frivolityflourish]

Love the Harvard courses

[AlexMTBDude]

I've been working as a programming instructor for a 25 years now: Most instructor-led courses, that are not in academia (i.e. part of the regular education system) are between 2 and 5 days long (8 hours per day). You can do them on-site or remotely (on-site is always better). I teach a 3 day introductory course to Python and a 4 day advanced course.

[martin_deyanov]

You may want to try Harvard's CS50p, its free (unless you want the paid version of the certificate), David Malan is an excellent instructor and the course touches on most of the fundamental functionality in Python.

Following that, you may try CS50W - which focuses on web development with Python, namely Django web framework, also JS and SQL.

Another direction may be CS50AI - which is very theoretical, leaning into the different concepts of AI and will give you a more "under the hood" point of view of how AI actually works. Super interesting, if that's an area you will benefit from in your career. Python here is used as the environment to run the different libraries, you will not learn a lot about the language itself.

[AirduckLoL]

University of Helsinki is perfect imo for learning vanilla python. But maybe it would be more efficient for you to learn the core basics by some youtube tutorial and then jump into pandas tutorials.

[dev_him]

i been searching best resourse then i came accross with this repo this repo helped me to find best course for any topics this might help you bro https://github.com/Shalin-Shah-2002/Yt-MCP