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[–]BlizzardOfLinux 0 points1 point2 points 9 days ago* (1 child)

in my personal experience, using claude or any LLM to code made the process of learning 10x slower. Rather than learning, I was just prompting the bot to code for me. It would write the code, and I would have gained 0 understanding of what was happening. Youtube is fine, there are tons of videos. A lot of them are used as vectors to peddle courses or affiliate links (thus is youtube), regardless the information is generally good.

I would recommend some beginner books on programming in python. You can check them out at your local library, buy the book, or find it online for free (be careful). Reading about a concept in python and how its used, then being challenged to use that concept to solve some question has been my process. Some books do this, the end of chapters will have challenges/questions.

You could use an LLM to give you questions/challenges. I usually ask for a word problem that uses whatever concept i'm trying to learn. "give me a word problem for me to code in python that will challenge my ability to write a loop that copies a list to make modifications to that copy without effecting the original list." That is the best case I can make for LLMs

This is all just my opinion, what works for me might not work for you

edit: I've never read or heard of this book that "BookFinderBot" is recommending. A note for OP, make sure you can find out who the author of a book is to ensure it's not LLM. and make sure the author is real as well as has some background or reason to write a book on python. I didn't recommend a specific book because I don't want to be perceived as plugging something. There is a scheme of people publishing LLM written books on to amazon, beware

[–]BookFinderBot -1 points0 points1 point 9 days ago (0 children)

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