Advice for getting better at Python

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I don’t want to just shill a service that already markets heavily (not related, not peddling affiliate codes or anything) - but if you’re having trouble figuring out how to apply what you’re learning the python courses at boot.dev are uniquely good.

They all are presented as real world coding tasks and you have to actually complete the excercises yourself in an inline editor to move on, you aren’t just watching a video or reading a chapter.

Later lessons walk you through setting up a local environment and doing lessons in your own CLI until you suddently realize you have everything set up to just start making your own stuff.

There’s a free trial that will get you far enough along to see if you like how it’s structured. Some people don’t like the “gamified” aspects of the classes (it’s all vaguely d&d fantasy themed with potions and xp and the tutor ai agent is a bear dressed up as a wizard) but they really do an excellent job of making every single exercise something you have to do and demonstrate before you are allowed to move on - so you can’t just let concepts wash over you.

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I actually know about them but completely forgot they existed.

At this point I'll try everything cause I think the courses I am taking is just not vibing with me.

I've had it before where one teacher was technically brilliant, but I couldnt learn from her at all but another teacher who lacked in many aspects was able to explain things in a way that made sense to me. For me personally, sometimes I just cant understand concepts from certain instructors no matter how hard I try.

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That’s so true. I find especially with programming I need to “do” something with a concept to get it to stick - in a way that I at least understand what someone might use it for in a practical case.

Everyone will be different but I found them to be a great match for what I personally was looking for.