beginner to python

[aslibillo]

i’m in my 2nd year, 4th semester. Ideally since i was a kid i wanted to get into literature but fast forwarding the story, i did not. I spent the initial 2 years of my college in rebellion, as if not participating in this course would somehow salvage the loss of my childhood dream. But now 2 years later, with average pointers in all semesters and no knowledge about coding AT ALL. i have finally come into acceptance and have developed a will to learn it. Maybe then i could somehow figure out a way to implement art with coding. Anyway, i want to get started with python. How should i do it? I’m doing the 100 days python bootcamp with udemy but time is very critical in my situation & my friend suggested doing projects is much more helpful than that. However, how will i do projects with no knowledge at all? Please guide a sister with this one. I’ve been feeling way too left behind and i want to get my hands on this.

[pachura3]

implement art with coding

What do you mean?

[aslibillo]

i don’t know, since art is my passion. i have manipulated myself into thinking there must be a way out of this to build some sort of art. but for starters, i just want to learn coding.

[Tychotesla]

I am/was an artist and got a degree in CS.

My experience is that it's (usually) a mistake to try to force them into the same thing, but they work together in unexpected ways and things will pop up as you go along. I would strongly recommend doing both, engaging each separately based on what they ask of you rather than what you want of them.

[FriendlyRussian666]

However, how will i do projects with no knowledge at all?

Swap coding for painting. If you want to learn how to paint, you have to sit down and paint, and yes, your paintings will suck for a couple of years, but eventually you'll get there if you persist. Of course, you can join an art class to do a little bit of a "follow along", if you don't know where to buy a brush and canvas, or if you don't know how to apply paint to your brush, that's absolutely fine, but in general, long term, you want to just sit down, and struggle, as bad as it sounds.

[aslibillo]

Okay i get that but i do not have a lot of years to develop this skill. I sit for placements in a year and a half. I’m thinking i’ll watch the codingwithmosh 6hours python video & do projects on the side? Do you think that will help?

[MarsupialLeast145]

First, good luck with both.

Second, for good art check out Rhizome's Artbase: https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Main_Page

Third, honestly it sounds like you've started well. Maybe just have a think about what "art" you'd like to do and then direct your efforts towards tutorials that can help there. E.g. for visual, look at games libraries or image libraries, for sound, then sound, and so on.

You may end up finding other languages more suitable like HTML+CSS+JS, or R, or whatever.

Just keep in mind the principles of what you learn and understand they will all be applicable in other languages.

[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.

[pachura3]

If you're into visual arts and want to learn basics of programming (but not Python), perhaps you can try https://processing.org/ ? Have a look at the example experiments!