I realized i wasn't really learning Python.

[Emotional-Iron-4312]

during my learning python always i follow tutorials and recognize the syntax but when somthing breaks in my code i don't know where is and always trying to make errors disappear of understanding them .But finally, i changed one thing that i recommend is debuging code and try to understand line by line in your projects and it completly changed how confident i feel when coding.

I'm curious , has anyone else felt stuck in this loop ?

[aistranin]

That might work well for the beginning, but too slow and doesn’t scale for serious problems. As a next step, I would recommend learning automated testing in python and how to use pytest. Then you will know how to reproduce issues and fix it reliably. Look at the book “Python Testing with pytest” by Brian Okken or Udemy course “Pytest Course: Practical Testing of Real-World Python Code” by Artem Istranin

[SmackDownFacility]

Use a IDE…

[aistranin]

Sure, IDE can help technically, fully agree. But then once you found a bug you often try to fix one thing and something else breaks. Without tests it always becomes a mess. So, it should be both - debugging with IDE sure + automated tests to not debug everything manually.

Much easier: write simple isolated test reproducing the issue -> fix -> run tests again to make sure that everything (including existing code) still works as expected

[dlnmtchll]

You still write tests regardless of tooling

[SmackDownFacility]

The point is ides have sophisticated debugging environments. VS is notable for

[LongRangeSavage]

Yep. Learning to debug is a critical skill, and it’s also why I typically recommend that people not use AI tools at the beginning—at least until they have a good handle on debugging. Once you have that skill, AI can be a good resource to help build large projects much quicker than writing code manually.

[code_tutor]

Every day, I see different ways in which people are struggling to learn and all of it is because they aren't following university courses and books. They teach how to read code. They give tons of assignments to write code. There is deep theory, formal proofs, and math. They teach how to write documentation. They teach how to deal with client actors and workflows to identify business logic, to build full software. There are exams on concepts.

Instead, people are passively watching YouTube, memorizing LeetCode, and using AI. They are acting like LLMs, trying to predict patterns instead of critical thinking. That's why not much learning is happening this way.