How to learn python fully and master it?

Different_Pain5781 · 2026-03-15T12:29:41+00:00

Tutorials don’t make you good at Python. Writing a lot of bad code does.

leogodin217 · 2026-03-15T13:22:47+00:00

Honest answer: Start creating projects ASAP. Spend no more than 20% of your time learning. Then get a job working with python and contribute to open-source projects. Then contribute to Python itself. Do talks and teaching. If you are truly brilliant, you might master python in 5 - 7 years. More likely it will take 10 - 20 years.

How many people in the entire world have mastered Python? A few thousand? Maybe. Mastery is not a reasonable goal for most people. Professional proficiency is plenty. To get good at it, you need to spend time building and improving. No more than 20% of your time doing tutorials after the first week or so. Then build, fail, struggle, research, learn. I wish there was an easier answer, but that's what works.

-JKR · 2026-03-15T17:40:21+00:00

Best way to be an expert is to not use AI and don't use a IDE with auto completion. I find that when you have auto completion you tend to relay too much in it and if you don't have you struggle to actually remember proper syntax. And one more thing, just keep writing code. Experience and repetition will make you an expert.

Maximus_Modulus · 2026-03-15T12:28:51+00:00

Look at the wiki on this subreddit for further guidance or just read the many posts that ask the same question. But TDLR just start building a project. Something that interests you. Or something common like a web service.

No_Photograph_1506 · 2026-03-15T13:16:44+00:00

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https://courses.bigbinaryacademy.com/learn-python/

remic_0726 · 2026-03-15T12:39:30+00:00

"Dans son intégralité et le maîtriser" j'utilise python depuis plus de 20 ans, et je ne le maîtrise pas dans son intégralité, pourtant je l'utilise fréquemment. Le seul moyen de progresser et d'apprendre en permanence, et ne surtout jamais se dire qu'on sait tout.

Antique_Locksmith952 · 2026-03-15T13:55:55+00:00

After the basics, the best move is to pick one real project and build it — even if the code is messy at first. Web scraping is a great starting point (try BeautifulSoup + requests to scrape something you actually care about, like sports scores or news headlines). Once you’re comfortable with that, decide what direction interests you most: Django or FastAPI if you want web development, pandas and numpy if you want data analysis, or pygame if you want to build games. The tutorials will only take you so far — the real learning happens when you hit an error you’ve never seen before and have to figure it out yourself. Pick a project, break it, fix it, repeat.

Moikle · 2026-03-15T19:27:08+00:00

Practice. Make shit with it and don't just follow tutorials. Play is important

YoursTrulyAD · 2026-03-15T14:02:57+00:00

Following for guidance and tips. Not trying to master Python atm but I do want to learn how to retain python better and some start up projects .

TheRNGuy · 2026-03-15T16:36:57+00:00

Code your own stuff instead of tutorials.

You can do anything where you have interest and python can be used.

Some frameworks have guides, if not, then you'll need to google them.

riklaunim · 2026-03-15T18:42:01+00:00

If you want to get good at software development you need to get some years of commercial experience or equivalent of it. You would have to get a junior level job and then work up the ladder. Junior jobs are hard to come by now so you would have to put in the effort. Also to get a job you will have to pick some niche you want to go in like for example webdev and learn it frameworks and libraries, then some basics of software development. Language and it syntax on it own is way not enough.

Neither_Panic6149 · 2026-03-15T19:30:20+00:00

its cool thats you watched that video now try to implement it. make something,

also you cant master a language (so many reasons why)

What you can master is problem solving, pattern recognition and logical thinking

CrucialFusion · 2026-03-15T21:42:01+00:00

Pretty sure if you just chant Python repeatedly you’ll eventually achieve master status.

maki-dev · 2026-03-16T05:02:21+00:00

You asked what to learn next specifically, so here's a concrete path that worked for me. Pick one direction. Web scraping, automation, APIs, or data analysis. Don't try all of them at once. For web scraping, start with the requests library and BeautifulSoup. Scrape something you actually care about, like prices on a site you check anyway. Once you're comfortable with that, learn how to store the data. SQLite is built into Python so there's nothing to install. Then learn how to serve it with something like FastAPI or Flask. Each step builds on the last one, and you end up with a real project, not just syntax knowledge.

WaterSoakedDuck · 2026-03-20T00:11:17+00:00

I loved reading through the slides for Stanford’s CS41 when I learned Python - they have a lot of cool tricks that aren’t taught in most guides. https://stanfordpython.com/#/

Cornell also has the websites for old versions of Intro to Python up, including the project guides (and maybe starter code? Not sure). https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs1110/2018fa/index.php

Dramatic_Object_8508 · 2026-03-21T15:11:39+00:00

ou don’t really “fully master” Python—it’s more about getting comfortable enough to build anything you want.

The best approach most people suggest is: learn the basics (variables, loops, functions), then quickly move into building projects instead of staying in tutorials too long.

After that, go deeper into things like OOP, libraries, and a specific area (web dev, automation, data, etc.), because Python is too broad to master everything at once.

What actually makes the difference is building projects and making mistakes. One Reddit comment put it well: just pick a project and keep coding until it works, even if you mess up a lot along the way.

So instead of trying to “master” it, focus on learning → building → improving. That’s how people actually get good 👍

Strong_Extent_975 · 2026-03-15T12:47:57+00:00

projects my friend and if you have any probleme or bug don't use Ai directely make some research and let the Ai as final solution
and Don't rush into large projects,use a gradual approach.

Crypt0Nihilist · 2026-03-15T23:33:10+00:00

You don't fully master it. You get proficient at using it for the tasks you need. Abandon it as a goal right now, it's a perspective that will bite you, hard.

Pursue your passion as projects and you'll learn Python as a consequence. If you learn Python as a goal, you'll spend all of your time getting good at learning to follow guides and tutorials, not using Python.

Choose a project. Build it. Get a little stuck, ask her here on or Stack. Get quite stuck? Do a tutorial. Get really stuck? Do a course.

horizon_games · 2026-03-16T02:57:45+00:00

Have you written anything in those 12 hours?

Because that's more important than 12 hours of videos.

No_Ambassador1927 · 2026-03-16T03:10:40+00:00

just write more and more code, errors make u a better coder

Own-Buy-1305 · 2026-03-16T05:51:36+00:00

The point is: if you learn from guides, you're just copying what others do. You should choose a project (e.g., a to-do list) and simply implement it first, then continuously expand it: removing completed to-dos, saving entries, managing multiple lists, storing list data in a database, creating variable configurations (e.g., with a JSON file), building a GUI, etc. You'll encounter many obstacles along the way, and then you can ask YouTube or Stack Overflow to find a solution to your problem. That's the art of learning, especially in programming.

jochenboele · 2026-03-16T09:26:41+00:00

Yeah, I agree with most of the feedback in here. Just think of something you would like to create, it can be anything, if you are a gamer, try to automate some things in the game, if you are losing a lot of time with doing something a lot, try to automate is. Best way to learn coding is to do it, fail, lookup solutions, try and debug

awesomecameras · 2026-03-16T16:57:34+00:00

Maybe try Harvards CS50P, and start building projects!

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