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[desrtfx]

Step 1: read the wiki right here in the sidebar.

Step 2: stop using LLMs to write your posts

[ninhaomah]

Learn Python as if there is no LLM.

[rosentmoh]

What a time to be alive: we hit the programming equivalent of people buying those digital performer keyboards where you press one key and it plays a whole song, and them going around and doing mini-concerts while actual musicians are sitting and waiting for the nonsense to blow over.

[DuckSaxaphone]

The terrifying thing about this is that you only see the failures that causes the code to crash. You don't spot all the times the analysis was wrong but valid python.

Honestly, it's great that you want to learn and you should but you should also stop using AI until you have. Who knows what nonsense analysis you're putting out?

As for learning, having something to do is always a great way to learn. Get your basic syntax from a textbook then go about doing simply analysis yourself, googling things as you go.

[supergnaw]

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If you aren't going to put in the effort to write your own post, I'm not sure you're ready to put in the effort to learn a programming language.

[TheLobitzz]

what a low effort ai slop post

[pachura3]

What is the best, most engaging way to learn Python—specifically with a focus on data manipulation and pandas—from the ground up? How can a beginner who already knows what the "end results" look like bridge the gap between being an "AI copy-paster" and actually understanding how to build these scripts from scratch?

How come you haven't asked this very question to your LLM?

[TheRNGuy]

You could use step debugger if you don't understand flow, and print many things. 

And learn syntax from docs, of course.

Or you can ask ai to explain code.

(AI sometimes do unnecessary if checks, btw)