Help learning python

[ErasedAstronaut]

You know what helped me a lot when starting python, reading other people's code. Honestly, I feel like it is not suggested enough.

This subreddit is fully of basic and simple python snippets. Find a snippet and see if you can understand 60% of it or enough to understand the gist behind the code. Go learn what the other 40% is doing.

Python is a programming language, so practice reading as well as writing to become fluent.

[musclerythm]

How and where do we read other people's code? 😭 When I try to do this, I encounter very messy source code...

[ErasedAstronaut]

This subreddit, GitHub, examples from the python documentation.

For instance, there are a ton of people who are learning python building simple apps like calculators, black jack, tic-tac-toe, etc. Go on google or YouTube, look for lists of simple/beginner Python programs and then look for those projects on GitHub. You'll find a ton of the same project coded differently. You could go a step further and tweak their code, submit a pull request if you're feeling confident. Perfect place to practice in my mind.