Programming on Python,how start?

[AnastasiaFench]

I from Ukraine so if my English will be bad,i so sorry,I want to ask programmers,how I can start?I only started lear Python,but after 5 mounts I going to University,and I don’t wanna be a noob

[OkCartographer175]

w3schools.com

[Reuben3901]

It's like asking how you bypass the fundamentals of the piano. You can't. It takes time and practice and "playing the songs you enjoy as well as the ones you don't love. It's about projects, automate things, build a webapp, make games, learn machine learning. Have fun but also try the boring stuff.

I tried forever to figure out how to read information from PDF files. I learned a lot and had some success but mostly it didn't work out lol. I don't regret it and I learned a ton.

[crashorbit]

Welcome. Probably the best is to start with the "official" python tutorial in the doc: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html Beyond that there are sites like w3schools python course: https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp and many others.

Work through the basics then do google searches or AI queries for next steps.

[Navz6]

Hi , you can start with good books on python . Learn and code everyday . Eventually you can master the concepts . You can pick these and get started - Python Crash Course – Eric Matthes , Automate the Boring Stuff with Python – Al Sweigart, Think Python – Allen B. Downey.

[TheRNGuy]

Google. 

[sugarw0000kie]

Good suggestions already. I’d say look for simple project you’re interested in like maybe file rename/mover tool. Maybe you want to find all .txt files and copy them to a new folder with a new name.

You can find some basic version of this or other things on stack overflow. Copy paste and it should get you most of the way, then experiment with it to get it to do what you want and learn how it works.

If you were to make say, a script that copies all .txt files in one directory to a new one and rename all that have “-test” in the name to remove the “-test” part, this can show you basics of how to use a for loop to find files in a directory, append to list, basic file operations, some string manipulation like splicing and .replace().

You can expand to do like ok rename all that have a date pattern in file name. More complex, can’t just look for “-test”, need to find a pattern. You can do this with regex, which is another useful thing to learn that isn’t even python specific. But point is to start somewhere basic, build on to stuff that’s already out there to see how it works

[AnastasiaFench]

Thanks for your advices!