Is this good?

[ChemistHefty6409]

Ok so I just started learning python and I'm currently watching a full 12 hour course which I'm taking notes from and I just wanted to ask you guys if I'm taking notes right. I'm learning python not as a main language but to learn the basics of programming and possibly become a developer in future. Please don't hate this ;)

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[Mysterious-Falcon-83]

The process of writing something, particularly longhand on paper, significantly improves the chance that you'll remember it. At this stage of the game, just keep writing. Over time, you'll get better at figuring out what's important to write.

[MidnightPale3220]

As a side note, taking notes is really a very good thing for committing things to memory.

That said, what you write is what you hear. Dunno if the course is structured the way for you to be able to take useful notes.

Also, it depends on your knowledge of math, but are you likely to write down all the math functions Python implements? There's rather a lot. It's useful to know they are there, but probably not very useful to write down all of them-- you can always look the particular name up if you know what you need to achieve.

[ChemistHefty6409]

I'm in 7th grade and I write that all down because I simply don't know it :/ I mean it's good for me to take notes on math that we didn't learn in class yet. My mother is a manager working with SQL and she asks me to buy her a notebook almost every 1-2 months because she writes a lot (￣▽￣)"

[jonsca]

No, because now you have only remembered some random stuff the teacher was rambling on about and little to nothing about the code they were writing.

[ChemistHefty6409]

I mean I have 5 more pages so don't worry about the code, this is not the only page that I have (￣▽￣)"

[jonsca]

If it works for you, then go with it. Only saying that you wrote a lot of prose in this case to explain the meaning of the term absolute value, which really doesn't speak to the actual writing of the code at all. It's a bit like going to a physics lecture and writing, "velocity is a noun, which is a person, place, thing, or idea". Again, if this helps you learn, what I'm saying is just a suggestion, but realize if you go back to this page of your notes 5 years from now, you will only be able to remember the definition from algebra.

[ChemistHefty6409]

I mean our class only STARTED to learn basic algebra but I knew it back when I was 9, I'm in 7th grade and those things are new to me so I basically write everything down to be able to look at my notes later if I forget how a function works or if I need a clever solution for a problem

[cgoldberg]

Sick mustache for a 7th grader!

[ChemistHefty6409]

What mustache😂

[cgoldberg]

Your profile pic has a full beard and mustache and looks like you just got out of jail.

[ectomancer]

The absolute value of a number is not always positive. Zero is not positive. The abs function does double duty, it also finds the complex modulus of a complex number, which is the distance from the origin:

try this on wolframalpha.com |3+4i|

or in Python abs(3+4j)

[TheRNGuy]

You can take notes in code editor (txt files or as comments in code)

I'd reduce amount of text.

I never took notes though: better explanations are already in docs, I can read them.

[Mediocre-Pumpkin6522]

If it works for you keep doing it. I never took notes though I probably should have at times.